Riding The Bus: Year Two
By angellelemarche

Well, it looks like I made it through the winter once again. The North Hollywood bus stop is always at its worst, when I have to wait in the dark. That is a small price to pay, to use this fairly reliable and much more inexpensive transportation to get to work.
I blogged about the 757 line, here in this community section of The Signal, back in September of 2009. It was shortly after ...

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Dear Mr and Mrs Driver
By Paris911

Have we all forgotten that driving is a privilege and not a right?

It is okay to let another merge in front of us.

It is well within your rights to grant other drivers the right of way.

You don't have to waive with a single finger - You don't know who the receiver of your Singular signal is and, if for no other reason, - ...

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Just Another Day At Seco & Decoro
By angellelemarche

Monday Morning.

A crossing guard stands in the middle of the street, red stop sign in hand.

Children begin walking across.

A few stragglers run for the cross walk, in the lead, a 12 year old girl. She gets to the corner just as a car makes the right turn and is about to drive right into the cross walk. Probably not a totally legal thing, ...

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Buses and Rain
By angellelemarche

It's been an El Nino kind of a week.

One storm front after the other, with small windows of non rain happening throughout the big storms.
It's day 4 of this mess and I decide to take the bus on Wednesday.
I get picked up at 7:48AM, as usual, on Cinema Drive. The bus turns onto Valencia Blvd and then almost immediately passes the area near Santa Clarita City Hall. ...

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We Need a SCV PD
By Independence

What we need is a proactive police department created right here in the SCV. What we need are police officers trained from cradle to grave in law enforcement with the understanding that their career begins and ends right here. We need officers with the type A drive found in PDs of Arcadia, Monrovia, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, etc... Sure their Police Budget is larger then ours. They pay from 100 million to 25 million while we ...

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