\u201cIt\u2019s been a summer of bad news for Mayor Bass. Can she reset the narrative?,\u201d<\/a> Aug. 2). Before she removes all ticketing and boarding control from the Metro trains, I suggest she dress incognito, assemble her three biggest pepper-spray-toting security guards and ride the Saturday night battleground the A Line and the E Line have become. Then report back to us what she sees and tell us how she intends to fix it.<\/p>\nMetro security? I have actually witnessed a pack of four Metro security employees herd a screaming person onto our occupied Metro train car mere seconds before the train pulled out of Union Station. Thanks, Metro \u201csecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Free tickets with no control will only bring about more dangerous \u201cfree for all\u201d fights on the Metro.<\/p>\n
See you on the A Line, Mayor Bass!<\/p>\n
Ben Herndon, Los Angeles<\/p>\n
..<\/p>\n
To the editor: In asking whether or not Bass has done a good job as mayor, we should all remember Harry Truman\u2019s observation about where the buck stops.<\/p>\n
Les Benedict, Reseda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 4, 2026 5 AM PT To the editor: To rescue her moribund reelection campaign, Los Angeles Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[169020,169023,169021,2072,51157,48943,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,17708,97871,169022,41217,20305,3898,21646],"class_list":["post-423560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-a-line","tag-ben-herndon","tag-boarding-control","tag-editor","tag-free-ticket","tag-good-job","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayor-bass","tag-metro-bus","tag-metro-security","tag-metro-train","tag-security-guard","tag-thank","tag-union-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}