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Local News in Brief : Bus Yard Plan Dropped

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The Southern California Rapid Transit District board of directors voted unanimously Thursday to abandon a plan backed by City Councilwoman Ruth Galanter to build a bus maintenance facility on the site of a drive-in theater in Westchester.

The proposed yard was promoted as a state-of-the-art, fully enclosed depot with direct bus access to the adjacent San Diego Freeway, but it drew criticism from residents of the Ladera Heights community across the street, who complained that it would give the area the image of a “bus maintenance yard neighborhood.”

The project would have replaced the RTD’s three-acre bus yard at Sunset Avenue and Main Street in Venice, where neighbors have complained about noise and diesel fumes from buses.

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