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[quercus.livejournal.com]

That's one ugly bus.

Looks like they hit it with the ugly stick at the dieselpunk robot factory.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

WHAAAHHH? That's an amazing sleek looking bus. Far cooler than most today, imho. It looks like it came from an anime studio like Ghibli. :D

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I agree. Very cool bus!

[crypticwyrd.livejournal.com]

At first I thought the ad was racist reflecting the times, then I realized it is because the company was owned by a Thomas H. White and it was the guys last name! LOL!

[msmoonshade.livejournal.com]

Me too. At first I was like D: , but then I was all :P....

[crypticwyrd.livejournal.com]

LOL! :D

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Two things:

1) GOD THE VENTILATION tell me they had some great ventilation.

2) The plural form of BUS! How fun to see busses, not buses, the more common form today.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate that. A buss is a kiss, not a vehicle.

My parents met working at the Pentagon in the 1950s. I wonder if they rode these buses?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Did you get that terrorists and enemies of the U.S.? THERE'S A BUS TERMINAL RIGHT UNDER THE PENTAGON! Yeah, it's that easy!

Obviously a different time, I know. Something tells me it's not there anymore. Or is it?

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

A bus terminal underneath the Pentagon? I must alert Moscow High Command!

Looks like there's still one nearby (http://wikimapia.org/18689/Pentagon-bus-terminal) associated with the current metro station.

[vp19.livejournal.com]

I remember riding a Metrobus in the '70s that passed through the Pentagon terminal.

After 9/11/2001, the terminal was closed, and eventually a new one was built away from the Pentagon building.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

The huge mass of workers at the Pentagon is served by a great many transportation methods. Probably the most interesting, and one that it's unlikely you'll have heard of if you're not from the area, are "slug lines (http://www.slug-lines.com/)." Slug lines facilitate the formation of ad hoc carpools - in which the parties don't usually know each other! - which carry passengers from designated starting points to designated destinations. The practice as a whole is known as "slugging," and thousands of people use it each day.

Slugging began in the 1970s. The impetus for this system emerging was the creation of rush-hour HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes on 395, the major highway that's the route from Springfield, VA to the Pentagon. Originally, drivers would stop at a bus stop and offer a ride to anyone waiting in line. This became popular enough that a system started to organize itself. Drivers needed passengers to take advantage of the HOV lanes, and passengers needed some way to find drivers who wanted them. So the first slug line was born at a Bob's Big Boy in Springfield, and a designated drop-off point at the Pentagon.

There are now tons of slug line sites in Northern Virginia and the District, and there is a whole set of etiquette (http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/Etiquette.asp) and lingo (http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/Slugging%20Terms.asp) for slugs and drivers. It's really a fascinating and wonderful example of the unintended consequences of transportation planning.