Transit TV Buses * USA - What you're forced to watch while riding the bus.
Los Angeles,CA,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Tim Cavanaugh -Nov 20, 2006: -- Riding a bus, especially in an auto-centric city such as Los Angeles, can be a grind, replete with 45-minute waits, urine-soaked street theater, surly drivers and constant reminders that if you were one of the city's winners, you'd already be wherever you're going... But the bus has always offered one compensation: the chance to zone out in a state of placid unhappiness. No more... Say hello to the Transit Television Network, a collection of 4,782 screens installed over the last couple of years on more than 2,200 Los Angeles buses... Twice a day, city buses download fresh programming from wireless hotspots across town, so there's a timely program of text news, La Opinion reports, X-treme sports shows, cooking tips from the Clever Cleaver Brothers and a GPS map that tracks your snail-like progress...
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