LG mobile telephone wrapper

Picture taken on 27 July 2009

These large adverts which cover the trolley cars are called wrappers. They were introduced for during a Super Bowl hosted in San Diego. At the time we were assured that it was a one off and would only be used on three car trains and only on the middle cars. Now they have been a common fixture and can be on any car and any train. In general I think selling naming rights to and advertisement on community resources is a cancer that rots civic comity. But, of such sellouts these wrappers probably bother me the least. In my mind the stations are the temples of the rail road system. The trains can flaunt a little color.

San Diego MTS Route 7

9 June 2009

This is a picture of the number a number 7 Metropolitan Transport System bus with the red and white colors of the agency. Many of San Diego buses travel on Broadway. This is one of the newer articulated buses. The information for Route 7 is as follows:

Rout Map
Time Tables

North County Student Transportation Bus

Of course many of us take public transport when we are children. For some reason school buses often park on 2nd Avenue across from Ralph's. I don't know where the children are going. The new children's museum is near. There is also a magnet school in Horton Plaza. Seeing these old buses remind me of hours of misery spent in these solar cookers. This one doesn't seem to have AC either. But at least it is painted white on the roof to reflect as much sunlight as possible.