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FARING BETTER? County transportation officials are about...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Jeffrey A. Perlman

FARING BETTER? County transportation officials are about ready to scrap the student bus pass and replace it with a two-week pass, designed both for students and the low-income. The student passes are too often misused, and too many people say the monthly pass doesn’t suit them. . . . The new pass, a staff recommendation based on a customer needs survey, would go into effect early next year. But the monthly pass will remain too.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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