New Bus Service Urged for Commuter Routes
A Los Angeles County transit panel on Thursday urged approval of a bid to supply 58 buses to provide new and expanded service for long-distance commuters in the San Fernando, Antelope and Santa Clarita valleys.
Purchase of the buses, to be delivered by December, is subject to approval Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission.
The city of Los Angeles plans to use 38 of the buses to start new routes connecting Pasadena with Sherman Oaks, Mission Hills with Westwood and El Segundo and Sylmar with downtown Los Angeles. Palmdale, which for more than a year has offered three round-trip commuter buses each weekday to downtown Los Angeles and two round trips to Warner Center, will buy six of the buses to increase service on both routes, said Greg Kelley, county Public Works Department transit manager. Lancaster will begin five round trips a day to downtown. It has no such service now.
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