Today’s installment of Transit on Thursday focuses on the soon-to-be-reality Riders Advisory Council, whose application process ends Monday afternoon. The council — which will include six seats for people from each of the three jurisdictions served by Metro, two at-large seats, and a seat held by the head of Metro’s Elderly and Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee — will afford ordinary Metro riders the opportunity to offer insights and opinions on the transit agency’s operations….

Today Transit on Thursday will focus on one issue — public officials and public transit — to allow for an exclusive interview we are finishing up for tomorrow. We caught up with Dennis Jaffe, a Sierra Club volunteer whose tireless work all but created the newly-formed Riders Advisory Council. We’re picking his brain, and we’ll have that on tap tomorrow. In the meantime, can anyone guess to what metro system the above picture belongs?…