Local Buses Among the First to Benefit from L.A. County's Measure M

Steve Scauzillo reports on the surprising benefits of Measure M, a countywide transportation funding measure approved by voters in November, to local bus services around the county.

Case in point: the city of Norwalk, where Norwalk Transit "will get a 10 percent bump in its annual budget starting in 2017 and continuing each year for perpetuity." According to Scauzillo, the funding bump is common to the county's local bus agencies: "their Measure M share may show up sooner and be more relatable to bus riders than any mega-project funded in the measure."

A sidebar running next to Scauzillo's article details the transit funding windfall in annual dollar amounts to each local bus service:

• Foothill Transit: $11.1 million
• Long Beach Transit: $9.8 million
• Santa Monica Big Blue Bus: $8.4 million
• Montebello Municipal Bus Lines: $3.5 million
• Torrance Transit: $2.69 million
• Santa Clarita Transit: $2.65 million
• Antelope Valley Transit: $2.5 million
• Culver City Transit: $2.24 million
• Gardena GTrans: $2.22 million
• Norwalk Transit System: $1.3 million
• Redondo Beach The WAVE and Beach City Transit: $305,000
• Commerce Municipal Bus Lines: $161,000
• Arcadia Transit: $119,400
• Claremont Dial a Ride: $76,000
• La Mirada Transit: $47,000

In the case of Norwalk Transit, the funding could enable new bus lines and the restoration of lines cut from the system in leaner times.