I suggest hiring a mime. The mime could then perform street art, art that would demonstrates peaceful behavior.
Side note to Los Angeles: Feel free to use my idea. No charge!
But don’t go with the white-face. It probably wouldn’t fit.
Posted on 07/12/2023 3:09:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With around 20,000 passengers passing through it each day, the Westlake/MacArthur Park Station is one of L.A. Metro’s busiest. It is also the most dangerous.
L.A. Metro is working to make conditions safer … Among the initiatives: better lighting and changes to the ambiance.
“Some of the lights down here have been replaced by brighter LEDs,” said Stephen Tu, senior director at the L.A. Metro who is in charge of the changes.
In addition to lighting and playing music, air is now blowing on the platforms.
Another part of the Metro’s multi-layer approach to safety is its ambassador program.
Ambassadors are not armed but have been trained in using Narcan – also known as naloxone – which is a medication used to rapidly reverse opioid overdoses.
Three days after getting trained, Ambassador Yesenia Chavez administered Narcan to a woman at the North Hollywood Station after she noticed she was unconscious and her lips were blueish.
So far this year, 22 people have died on Metro buses and trains, mostly from suspected overdoses. That’s more deaths than in all of last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
“In addition to lighting and playing music, air is now blowing on the platforms.”
Perhaps hiring an artist for $280,000 to do some paintings there will calm the locals...
I remember when California was assessing whether it should address the vehicle traffic gridlock crisis and spend money on rail and other transit.
Polls showed Californians overwhelmingly supported mass transit -——but only for other people to ride on. They said they intended to drive their own cars as usual.
At least that time gave the rest of the public around the country a good laugh.
Maybe they should offer free beer too.
To gain the Number One status, up from the pack, as “Most Dangerous” I wonder how they weight rapes, gropings, public urination in front of someone, punching, slashing, stabbing, pushing in front of a moving train and outright murder.
Cities often weight things differently so say, Detroit can say “less violent muggings” and “fewer carjackings including injury to the driver or passenger.” Then the statistics look better. “Violent crime down.” “”25% fewer rapes reported.”
What kind of music would they play? From one time Ministry of Truth hopeful Nina Jankowicz aka Scary Poppins? Or, even worse than that, Yoko Ono??😖😖😖🤦♂️
What a comedy of errors... I love humour.
The Randolph Street Metra Station in Chicago always strick me as something dystopian. Big shiny LCD screens (when they were a new thing) and puddles, urine stench, and derelicts with lights that looked like they came out of the interrogation room from a 1950s film noir. Throw in an incomprehensible sound system, and you have dissonance.
Ha.
Speaking of calming the locals with music, in Greg Gutfeld’s book The Plus he said he sympathized with activists who wanted to force everyone to have only free range chickens allowed. “I’ll accept it. Have the chickens hear calming Enya songs right up to the moment they are slashed to death.”
I didn’t read the article, so I’m going to take a guess:
1. Strict enforcement of laws
2. A tough-on-crime DA who puts criminals in jail and keeps them there
3. Tough-on-crime judges who don’t brook crime
4. Involuntary confinement in mental hospitals of the insane and druggies on the streets
Did I get it right?
… Did I get it right? …
Well, …
I suggest hiring a mime. The mime could then perform street art, art that would demonstrates peaceful behavior.
Side note to Los Angeles: Feel free to use my idea. No charge!
But don’t go with the white-face. It probably wouldn’t fit.
ping
Tom Cruise/Vincent: I read about this guy. Gets on the MTA, here, and dies. Six hours he’s riding the subway before anybody notices. This corpse doing laps around LA, people on and off, sitting next to him, nobody notices.
On “The Wire” they called that ‘juking the stats’.
Did they ever find out who left the cake out in the rain?
RE: Or, even worse than that, Yoko Ono??😖
Is that music still legal?
I was listening to the radio show London Calling. Show has British only music. He had played one John Lennon song and the next had “mostly Yoko heard on this one.” A few seconds into it I was actually annoyed and uncomfortable as sometimes in the dentist’s chair. Had to stop the sound. 😲
Thanks. A new word to know.
Maybe it was the newspaper man Matt Weinstock, who opposed changing the name of Westlake Park to MacArthur Park in 1942. In his subsequent columns, he referred to it as "MacWestlake Park."
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