2018 Elsie & Soyeon Purple Line TAP Card

Elsie & Soyeon are the names given to the tunnel boring machines for the Purple Line extension.  Metro did a dog and pony show to show taxpayers, they aren't wasting the money from Measure M.  Metro's propaganda machine The Source, has the all the information about the dog and pony show.  A 3rd grader came up with this great design!!  But, the write up was very vague about how the TAP cards were going to be distributed.  " Metro will issue commemorative TAP cards featuring Lauren’s winning artwork at 7^th Street/Metro Center, Wilshire/Vermont and Wilshire/Western Purple Line Stations beginning April 26."  Why can't they just say these TAP cards will be sold at the TAP machines?

One thing I know whenever Metro issues any TAP cards at 7th & Metro, you'll go on a wild goose chase trying to find them.  There are so many entrances and exits at that station.  So, I went to Wilshire/Vermont to try and buy these TAP cards.  Sure enough of the two TAP machines, one of them had the sticker.  A lady was in line ahead of me and she was trying to buy a new TAP card.  She got the Elsie & Soyeon TAP Card.  So, I went ahead and but got mine with no trouble.

Afterwards, as I took the train back to Union Station, I stopped at 7th & Metro to try and find the TAP machine that sold these TAP cards.  After some searching, the TAP machine at the Fig entrance/exit had these TAP cards!!

Anyways, this design is one of my favorite!  Bright, colorful, and captures the progress of the Purple Line extension!  Even if that bastard Zev Yaroslavsky is trying to take all the accolades for the extension.  History lesson people, Zevy and his moron buddy Waxman, has cost taxpayers BILLIONS when they stopped, what is now the purple line, construction back in the 1990's! The Purple Line was suppose to extend much further than Wilshire/Western, but that didn't happen after Dumb and Dumber, Zevy and Waxy, got a law passed where Metro could not build underground! 

2018 Go Human TAP Card

CicLAvia hosts car free street events.  The streets are open to bikes and pedestrians.  For the first time CicLAvia came to the Pomona Valley.  The western edge of the route started in San Dimas and headed east, ending in Claremont.  There were four hubs, San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona, and Claremont.

This was my first time attending CicLAvia, and my goal was to get a CicLAvia TAP card.  But, they did not have any more CicLAvia TAP cards!  But, at the San Dimas hub, AARP had a table and gave out free AARP TAP cards, both designs, which came with a one way fare. But, then I found out an organization; GO Human, was going to give out their own TAP Cards. Now the object was to find out which hub they were at!!

They were at the Claremont hub, and if you asked for the TAP card, they gave you one!!  I'm going to check and see if a fare has been loaded onto the card.  I really like this TAP Card.  The design and colors are awesome!