Yikes... It's Them

Wednesday, January 19, 2005, at 01:05PM

By Eric Richardson

So I come into my Urban Transportation Planning class tonight (a few minutes late, thanks to traffic on Figueroa that made my 81 bus late) and find a girl from the Bus Riders Union presenting about an upcoming conference they're holding. Normally I'm pretty hesitant to express unequivocal dislike here, but I don't like the BRU. I ride buses all the time, and as of a couple days ago I guess I'm officially "transit-dependent", but when it comes to the BRU... well... I just don't like them. I'm sure they had a place back in the time of the consent decree, but the BRU these days is just a little nuts.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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