Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Meaning to the Initial Second Poem, "Whose Traffic is Worse?"

In my initial poem posted on the Blogger site (not counting revisions), here is the reference of what the lines indicate...

LINE 7: "Allen" refers to "Michelle Allen", who is a KSBW traffic anchor that is native of the San Francisco Bay Area.

LINE 9: "Bruce" refers to "Damian Bruce", who is a personality at 95.7 The Game - based in the Bay Area.

LINE 13: "Bunger" and "Taylor" refers to the KCBS Radio morning personalities Stan Bunger and Susan Lee Taylor.

LINE 14: "Wonderley" means "Kim Wonderley", a morning traffic reporter at KCBS Radio.

LINE 19: "Monterey" refers to Monterey Road, not the city of Monterey. This is a road that stretches from Gilroy (as Monterey Street) to Alma Street in San Jose.

LINES 21 TO 24: The five stations described in the line refers to the stations along the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Santa Teresa-Alum Rock line that run in the median along California State Routes (SR) 85 and 87.

LINE 25: "Inouye" refers to Mike Inouye, who is a traffic anchor at NBC Bay Area.

LINE 31: "Narrowing Curtner" refers to of which Curtner Avenue heading westbound is reduced from three lanes to two before SR-87.

LINE 32: "Tamien", pronounced as "TAH-ME-YEN" refers to "Tamien Station", a light rail and Caltrain station located along Lelong Avenue off of SR-87 (labeled as Alma Ave SB). This is also spelled as "Taymen", one of the eight divisions of the Ohlone people groups of Native Americans that lived in Northern California.

LINES 33 TO 36: This refers to the suggestion that Livermore riders should take either bus or rail modes that will connect them to San Jose during the morning rush hour.

LINE 45: "Mendoza" refers to Vincent Mendoza.

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