My Clockwork Orange

Finding Cohesion on Metro

They say that nobody rides public transportation In Los Angeles. If that’s true, then every week I ride with a few more than 20,000 “nobodies” traveling through the deep recesses of the Valley on a strange hybrid known as the Metro Orange Line.

Part subway, part bus, the Orange Line is a mutant in the world of public transportation that runs a 14-mile route from Warner Center to North Hollywood. It’s a bus, all right. It lugs 60 or so passengers at a time to and from the Valley in its …