» Strangers on a Train
Mike Anton takes a ride on the Blue Line.
The Metro Blue Line cuts up the middle of Los Angeles County, from Long Beach to downtown, like a surgical incision, exposing an element of the metropolis many never see.
In a place dominated by freeways and the automobile’s numbing isolation, the 22-mile light-rail line—the oldest in L.A. County, marking 20 years of service this summer—is a rolling improvisational theater where a cast of thousands acts out a daily drama that is by turns poignant, sad, hysterical and inexplicable.
