As subway and rail forces fought for prioritization in the Long Range Transportation Plan all summer, the MTA Bus Service Slasher has made a come back with 2 new allies in the Legion of Doom. The Highway devil, Service Slasher and Rail Dracula, paid a visit to Angelenos in an attempt to destroy bus riders civil and environmental rights through helping pass the 2009 LRTP, which will spend billions of dollars on rail and highway projects on the back of the bus system by imposing 14 fare increases and service cuts for the next 30 years. The Legion of Doom wants to pollute the lungs of black and brown children, destroy the civil rights of people of color and bring hell to earth through global warming , sooner rather than later. Only Superpasajera can rally bus riders to build a strong enough movement on the streets to stop the Legion of Doom from implementing the policies that perpetuate the structural racism for which the Bus Riders Union sued MTA in 1996. Will the power of the people overcome the injustice that looms over hundreds of thousands of transit dependent people of color, or will racism reign, keeping a dark shroud of doom over the world.

See photo album and press release for this event

Check out Media Coverage of the Bus Riders Union on the Long Range Transportation Plan:

MTA greenlights $298 billion plan - Daily News Article - 10/23/2009

MTA Marca Su Ruta - La Opinion - 10-23-09

Legislators challenge Villaraigosa on Westside subway funding - LA Times - 10-21-09