May
20

LA Weekly Writes about Red Line; Still Doesn't Check a Map

Published: Friday, May 20, 2005, at 07:20AM

The LA Weekly cracks me up. In March they asked us

Ever wonder why a leg of the Red Line ends at Wilshire and Normandie, miles short of the museums and office buildings that would make it worthwhile to thousands?

I said that no, I hadn't wondered that, seeing as the line actually ends one stop later at Wilshire/Western.

And now in this week's issue they tell us where to drink along the Red Line. But again something funny caught my eye.

The Powerhouse, across the street to the east from Hollywood & Highland, the Red Line’s penultimate stop, deserves the honor of your visit if only for its dive-bar tenacity amid rampant swankification.

Hmmm... My dictionary tells me that penultimate means next to last. And my handy Red Line map tells me that there are in fact two stops past Hollywood & Highland. And just a bit before this we read

Traxx has a timeless romanticism about it; it also has great crab cakes (although you might have to eat them standing up). When you’re done, take a calm walk among the train-runners past the many numbered tracks toward Vignes Street, make a right at the end of the tunnel, and board the subway for central downtown.

I know, they probably just wanted an excuse to talk about tracks and numbers and such, but if you're giving people directions, don't make them walk more than they have to. The Red Line entrance before the train tunnel is much closer to Traxx.

Comments

1
alan writes:

I think you must take a perverse pleasure in pointing out the inaccuracies in local reports ;-)

# on May.20.2005 AT 10:40 AM
2
e; writes:

Perhaps. I just expect people getting paid to write to not make mistakes. Or at least not to make obvious mistakes that still make it through past the editor. These are the kind of things that would make me mad to find in something I wrote, and I don't get anything for it or have an editor checking it. -e;

# on May.20.2005 AT 04:45 PM

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