Rapid Bus Stop in skid row

 Don Garza - Downtown Los Angeles

After over 8 years of being denied because MTA had decided it was too dangerous to have stop in skid row , the residents , social service provider employees , and Garment workers  in skid row have cause to celebrate. The MTA has placed a rapid 720 bus stop on the corner of 5th Street and San Pedro. Word came down today through a message from General Jeff about the new stop. With the impending loss of the Central City East  DASH service , this new  RAPID 720 stop will help the people of skid row to leave the area quickly on a major line as well as bring them to the services.  It took the efforts of an unfunded group of grassroots organizers and advocates, who live in skid row, to accomplish something the million dollar funded social service organizations could not... Kudos to MTA and kudos to General Jeff and OG MAN and Life is Crushow..

The E-mail sent by General Jeff can be seen below:

March 10, 2010

To Skid Row,

Effective immediately, Metro has added a new bus stop for the westbound 720 Rapid bus line on 5th street at San Pedro.

Prior to now, the next closest stops were 6th and Central to the east and 5th and Main to the west.

Today, myself along with "OG" and Songhai Miguda-Armstead from the City Attorney's office observed the new stop in action as many community members were already benefiting from this important addition to our local transportation needs.

On behalf of the Skid Row community, I would like to publicly thank Paul Taylor, Deputy CEO from Metro (MTA) for personally taking the lead and seeing this request to completion in an expedited manner.

This is another accomplishment for our "Operation: Facelift/ Skid Row" community improvement project, which is an ongoing continuous community-led effort to improve the Skid Row community. Included in this effort are ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS, OG's-N-Service Association, the Skid Row Brigade and "Life is... Crushow".

Please pass this information along so that others may also benefit from this new convenience.

Thank you,

General Jeff

community activist-

ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS

Resident Director- Central City East/ Skid Row

Board of Directors    

Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council