California
Although public bus service in the Antelope Valley costs about $2.3 million a year to operate, Richard DeRock believes it has a serious identity problem.
Sept. 27, 1990
Autos
Advertising: Covering billboard-sized vehicles helps sell products or images, pleasing bus riders and adding revenues to mass transit systems.
Oct. 25, 1996
The South County housing boom has been a transportation bust for the Saddleback Unified School District, where bus-route planners can’t make maps fast enough to keep pace with development.
Sept. 2, 1989
Leaders of the Bus Riders Union charged Tuesday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has failed to comply with a landmark federal court order requiring dramatic improvements in service on the nation’s most overcrowded bus system.
Oct. 29, 1997
The experts say covering a bus in an advertisement printed on vinyl is more like hanging wallpaper than stretching plastic wrap.
World & Nation
Clutching his 2-year-old son, Rami Hussein paced the parking lot in hopeful silence as the last bus from Jordan pulled into the Jericho station Friday afternoon.
Jan. 13, 2001
Transportation: Survey shows 54% of riders are pleased, proving the agency has overcome furor over rates, routes.
March 23, 2002
After years of talk about sprucing up downtown Ventura, the pace of revitalization picked up Wednesday as city leaders decided such nitty-gritty details as the trees, bus benches, lampposts and landscaping that will change the district’s look dramatically.
March 3, 1994
A jury of seven women and five men began deliberations Thursday in the murder trial of Kent Anguiano, 38, accused of killing Luis Lopez, 25, at a Costa Mesa bus stop eight years ago.
Oct. 2, 1998