Subway till 3AM they got the money
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skd at 10.27.08 - 5:39 pm
LA Metro Red Line subway will run until 3AM starting November 21st, every Friday and Saturday night.
Los Angeles businesses came forward with the $54,250 needed to extend the service through the holiday season.
Sponsors include: Staples Center; LA Live; Bringing Back Broadway; 213 Ventures - Broadway Bar, Casey's Irish Bar & Grill, Cole's Original French Dip, Golden Gopher & Seven Grand; The Orpheum Theatre; The Los Angeles Theatre; Club Nokia; NBC Universal; Historic Downtown Business Improvement District; Millennium Partners/Argent Ventures; Redwood Bar & Grill; La Cita; Selma Hotel; Deluxe Restaurant - Adolfo Suaya; Newport Capital Advisors; Fox Theater and The Ivar — 6506 Hollywood Associates; L.T. Properties — Dr. Alan Konce and Vytas Juskys, and the Pantages Theatre, and the office of Los Angeles City Council President Erci Garcetti.
We can ride late then catch the subway home....finally.
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This is really friggn awesome news!
If only there were more rail to get around though.
Joe Borfo10.27.08 - 5:44 pm
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this is going to help me so much.
Graham10.27.08 - 5:45 pm
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finally!!
oh how i'll miss cahuenga pass... and the la river bike path on these cold winter nights. yeah right.
Jazzy Phat Nastee10.27.08 - 5:46 pm
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I definitely will stop in to Cole's Original French Dip and Golden Gopher to buy a sandwich and some drinks and personally thank them for putting up the money.
skd10.27.08 - 5:47 pm
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we should all go to one of those and thank them, and invite them to the ride of course!
aksendz10.27.08 - 5:51 pm
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Bring back Cruzzz With Us!!!
I know tons of people never got to experience this ride because they didn't want to ride back.
Eric Hair10.27.08 - 5:53 pm
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Dammit, this means I could have gotten home on Saturday without being stalked by the fucking rapist in his truck.
Gav10.27.08 - 5:55 pm
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This is very good news! So much more FUN can be had now. : )
kryxtanicole10.27.08 - 6:08 pm
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SO YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GOLD LINE?
eddieboyinla10.27.08 - 6:53 pm
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HOLY SHIT!!!
now we can
ride it all night long! (minus a couple hours till it starts up again)
Candy Cane10.27.08 - 6:56 pm
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I love SKD's idea of visiting and thanking the businesses that came through with the money to make this happen. Anybody want to do a pub crawl downtown on Wednesday around 8:00 and hit a couple of these places before the CCM?
NixonTwin10.27.08 - 7:05 pm
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staples center probably makes that much in a single hour from a lakers game... the moms and pops shops that helped out (or the ones that aren't corporate) i would thank the rest... it's probably just a big write off anyways.
Jazzy Phat Nastee10.27.08 - 7:53 pm
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Friggin' finally. It was so lame that the subways didn't run past the time when bars closed.
cabhauler10.27.08 - 8:21 pm
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This feels historic, if only we could keep it year round! How much to keep it running late every second Friday?
tallcans4tallbikes10.27.08 - 8:38 pm
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we should have a GIANT GIANT GIANT ride to union station and make the train last till 3am forever. like, um. protest? I don't know what I'm saying...
rayrayray10.27.08 - 9:00 pm
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It's outrageous that outside companies should have to pay for this service in a World Class city.
F**knig Bullsh*t MTA.
I need a French Dip to calm down...
pretzels10.27.08 - 10:25 pm
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^^^ yeah, what pretzels said.
Other cities (cough-Toronto-cough) have systems that run until 1:30am every night... and I used to complain about
that. 3:00 is AWESOME... but they should really do it every day so that people actually start to consider the system convenient and possibly even (dare I say) use it!
Anyway... baby steps... baby steps...
canadienne10.27.08 - 10:44 pm
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this is making me veeeerryy happy right now.
meow10.28.08 - 3:05 am
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i personally don't think anyone will ride the damn thing but us.
but i hope i'm really really really really wrong.
aksendz10.28.08 - 8:48 am
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i predict bigger beer guts in the valley
trickmilla10.28.08 - 9:34 pm
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