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February 11, 2007
New Google Maps Upgrade Proves LA Has a Subway
The first blog I ever had was called "the busblog" because it was the stories of a single man in LA commuting to work on the subway and busses and trying to get laid without a car.
The blog became pretty successful and I was invited to speak places and be on panels and because the disclaimer of the blog said "nothing in here is true" several people would either approach me or email me and ask if it was true that LA really had a subway.
This struck me as odd because like LAist, every post on the busblog had at least one photo and not only did I take many pictures of the Red Line, but I even had some very short films of riding in the subway.
Well thankfully Google has now stepped in and you no longer have to upload video of you riding the subway in LA because the best online map just got better by including subway stops and building outlines on their maps at maps.google.com.
Will a bus route overlay be next?
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That's pretty dope.
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That's sweet. I've been wanting this sort of integration for a long time. Now I know I can take the subway to my teacher training in 2 weeks :D
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This is way cool. Although interestingly it doesn't have the orange line stops.
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that's because the orange line is a bus.
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"nothing in here is true" several people would either approach me or email me and ask if it was true that LA really had a subway.
I think it's time to let people in on the joke.
The problem is the English language works differently for its spoken and written forms.
When you hear someone ask whether L.A. has a subway, it's not that they really don't know. The written form of the question loses the stress on "subway" heard in the spoken form. The stress is meant to convey both shock and revulsion.
L.A. has a subway is not meant as curiosity, but indignation. It's like, "Mississippi is building a public library?" The joke is that Angelenos are both stupid and porcine for attempting to accommodate anything but cars, just as the Mississippi question is inevitably followed up by a comment on burning books.