Debuts * USA - Nation's longest bus in the Valley
100 can ride new Orange Line behemothNorth Hollywood,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Daily News (Los Angeles,CA), by SUE DOYLE -29 Aug 2007: -- The longest bus in America hit the road Monday morning - its first day of a yearlong run on the Orange Line... Stretching 65 feet, the new bus carries up to 100 passengers - 16 more than a regular 60-foot bus holds - on the popular line that nearly every month breaks new records for ridership. With standing room for 34 more riders, the super-size bus seats 66... If the big bus handles the heavy demand of the 14-mile Orange Line during the next year, Metro officials eventually want to phase in about nine more as older 60-foot buses are retired... (Photo by John Lazar/LADN - L.A. Metropolitan Transportation Authority rolled out its new 65-foot high-capacity bus in North Hollywood on Monday, August 27, 2007. The bus has a 100-passenger capacity and is followed by a normal 60-foot bus which has a 66-passenger limit. The bus is the only one of its kind to be used in North America and will run on the Orange Line)
* A win for buses in L.A. - Los Angeles City Council OKs a peak-hour bus-only lane
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Grist Magazine (Seattle,WA), by Eric Mann -31 Aug 2007: -- For the first time in L.A., the car capital of the world, a bus-centered public-transportation system has been given priority over the auto -- a big victory for environmental justice and the reduction of auto-based air toxins and greenhouse gases... On Aug. 15, the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union secured an important environmental and public-health victory at the Los Angeles City Council: the approval of a $27 million project to implement peak-hour bus-only lanes on Wilshire Boulevard... The Wilshire bus-only lane would run from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica and would operate during rush hour, 7-9 a.m. and 4-7 p.m. Wilshire Boulevard has the largest transit ridership in the county with over 90,000 boardings a day. The bus-only lane is expected to reduce travel time by 20 percent for current transit users and would attract new riders to public transportation...
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Grist Magazine (Seattle,WA), by Eric Mann -31 Aug 2007: -- For the first time in L.A., the car capital of the world, a bus-centered public-transportation system has been given priority over the auto -- a big victory for environmental justice and the reduction of auto-based air toxins and greenhouse gases... On Aug. 15, the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union secured an important environmental and public-health victory at the Los Angeles City Council: the approval of a $27 million project to implement peak-hour bus-only lanes on Wilshire Boulevard... The Wilshire bus-only lane would run from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica and would operate during rush hour, 7-9 a.m. and 4-7 p.m. Wilshire Boulevard has the largest transit ridership in the county with over 90,000 boardings a day. The bus-only lane is expected to reduce travel time by 20 percent for current transit users and would attract new riders to public transportation...
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