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Wilshire’s Facelift: Bus-Only Lane to Open By 2015
All around Hancock Park, workers are tearing up Wilshire Boulevard. No, it’s not heavy-duty construction related to the long-awaited Purple Line subway extension—that happens later this year or...
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There’s Now a Wilshire Bus-Only Lane From MacArthur Park to Beverly Hills
To the delight of transit users, and possibly the chagrin of drivers, bus-only lanes opened Wednesday on a 3.6-mile stretch of Wilshire in mid-Wilshire and Miracle Mile. There are now 5.4 miles of rush...
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Ask Chris: Why Do Some of the LAX Flyaway Airport Buses Have Wyoming License...
Eight bucks from Cheyenne to Westchester would be the deal of a lifetime, right? But those Cowboy State buses were rounded up when the contract operator filed for bankruptcy in 2012. That fleet has...
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The Newest Driving Distraction: Digital Bus Ads
L.A. may have banned digital advertising on billboards, but the Antelope Valley just introduced them on buses. The Antelope Valley Transit Authority launched a five-year pilot program last week to see...
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82-Foot-Long Mega Buses May Soon Roam L.A.
Jerry Brown quietly signed a bill this weekend that could make life a lot easier for many commuters in the city: the governor approved legislation that allows buses up to 82 feet long to operate in Los...
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Last Segment of Wilshire Bus-Only Lane Opens Monday in West L.A.
A patchwork rush-hour bus-only lane on Wilshire Boulevard will be officially completed and open for business on Monday morning, Metro reports. Though some have grumbled the lane is broken up in...
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Metro’s Thriving Silver Line Stretches to San Pedro
Possibly because of low gas prices and the ascendancy of Uber, ridership on many of Metro’s train and bus lines are stagnating or dropping. A bright spot for the transit agency is the Silver Line, a...
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WeHo Is Offering Free Commuter Service to Hollywood
West Hollywood is serious about unclogging their streets. After launching their free nighttime Pick Up trolley in 2013, and expanding its coverage and hours last year, the city just launched CitylineX,...
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Where Could L.A. Use a Giant Straddling Bus?
Six years ago, a video for a bus that operates above roadways—it’s actually more like a train—raised some curious eyebrows. Some dismissed it as impractical, while other saw it as inexpensive solution...
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Here’s Why That Chinese ‘Straddling’ Bus Wouldn’t Work in L.A.
Everyone was in thrall over the recent Chinese test drive of the “straddling bus,” a proposal for a public transport contraption that would operate above roads and allow cars to pass underneath it....
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7 Ideas for Boosting L.A.’s Sagging Bus Ridership
With new extensions opening regularly, our rail system is seeing healthy gains in ridership; in July, five of the six lines saw year over year growth. Sadly, the bus system—which transports the...
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Dash Buses Go Electric While Metro Sticks With Natural Gas
The city’s first regular electric bus line is currently humming along DTLA streets after debuting last month; the first of four buses to be eventually rolled out by the Los Angeles Department of...
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Can a Rapid Transit Line Save Messy, Perilous Vermont Avenue?
Though not technically a boulevard, Vermont is one of those iconic L.A. thoroughfares that stretches for miles and passes through iconic neighborhoods (Los Feliz, Koreatown, West Adams, Torrance,...
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The Orange Line’s Conversion to Rail Is on Track—Here’s How to Make It...
The November passage of Measure M meant the green light for former pipe-dream projects, like a Santa Ana light rail and an underground train through West Hollywood. Another big-ticket plan is the...
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The Success of the Gold and Expo Lines Has Taken a Toll on Bus Ridership
The new Expo and Gold Line light rail extensions are successes, bringing tens of thousands of new riders to the transit system every day. There’s a side effect to all that winning, though—bus ridership...
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Metro Hustles to Turn Bus Ridership Around With WiFi and 24-Hour Service
It may be a golden age for rail in L.A., but the same can’t be said about the bus. Ridership has steadily dropped since 2013, with 59 million fewer annual trips on the sprawling bus system from 2013 to...
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This Radical Reimagining of Wilshire Hints at a Future Where We Waste Less...
Here’s a counter-intuitive idea for reducing L.A. crazy traffic: Make the streets smaller. That’s the solution being proposed in a study commissioned by ride-sharing company Lyft in collaboration with...
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5 Ways to Vastly Improve the City’s Bus-Only Lanes
Santa Monica is getting a lot of things right lately when it comes to transportation. The city had a bike share before L.A. did, welcomed the Expo Line with open arms, and make the stations’...
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This Eagerly Awaited Metro Transit Line May Happen Sooner Than Expected
A new, 12.5-mile north-south bus rapid transit project is coming to beleaguered Vermont Avenue in the 2020s, but a new private proposal could have it operating years earlier. Local engineering...
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This New-to-L.A. Bus Service Is Offering Tickets to Vegas for $2.99
German company FlixBus has just launched in the U.S.–and it’s offering tickets from L.A. to Vegas for as little as $2.99. Beyond low prices, the idea is to make traveling by bus an attractive option,...
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