LA's Red Busses Win Praise

20 July 2000 - 7:00am

MTA's new red busses are a surprisingly successful experiment for LA's public transportation system.

Since being introduced in late June, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's red buses have emerged as a surprising success for the L.A. public transportation system. The express routes have attracted so many riders that the MTA has added 10 percent more buses to service them. The pilot program was rolled out at a cost $10 million to determine whether a faster form of above-ground travel would increase the use of public transportation.

Source: Los Angeles Business Journal, July 20, 2000
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?