City Corridor
I rode the LA MetroRail line from downtown to North Hollywood and back. I rode the line on a Saturday morning. The route goes mostly through Hollywood and that area, serving a number of different neighborhoods along the way. The train is a fairly typical subway experience like I've had in many other cities. The car was half full at any given time, which I was expecting since it was an off-peak hour.
I saw a lot of different people along the way. The majority, arguably, were just ordinary people going to and from work, or their daily chores. They clearly came from a wide variety of backgrounds, and some ethnicities were fairly clear to identify while I would say that others were not as clear. People in LA come from all over the world, and I think that there was fairly broad representation of different groups on the subway during my trip. I tried to count the different languages that I heard it was somewhere like seven or eight at least. Sometimes I had no idea if I was hearing a different language at all.
In terms of how people were dressed, I saw a few suits downtown but not that many, probably because it was Saturday. Many people were wearing work uniforms of different types, however, usually for blue collar jobs and occasionally for service jobs. As we moved into Hollywood, I think the people became more casual, and fewer of them appeared to be going to work. More of them were out shopping, with bags, or were simply going from one place to another.
I exited the station in Hollywood and it looked like, well, Hollywood. It was a mixed crowd, numerous vagrants, lots of people on the streets and many more in cars. I saw everything from hipsters to police officers and beggars, which is pretty typical for the area. Back on the subway, I noticed that there was roughly the...
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