Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is a major transit line into UCLA. For some reason, it was not included in Google’s public transit information until now. UCLA’s official “Be a Green Commuter” blog reports this problem has been resolved. See: http://www.beagreencommuter.com/blog/?p=2716
There will be increased discussion about the “Subway-to-the-Sea” and its proposed stop at UCLA now that an environmental impact report has been released. See http://www.metro.net/projects_studies/westside/images/Draft_EIS_EIR/Executive%20Summary%20DEIS.pdf In a promotional video put on YouTube last October by the LACMTA, UCLA VC for Finance Steve Olsen endorsed the project. His remarks are at about the 6-minute point on the video: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz95Gr6VVLM&fs=1&hl=en_US]
An earlier post on this blog pointed to rising bus fares for students, faculty, and staff at UCLA under its BruinGO! program. Not so at CSU-Long Beach where bus rides are free to students, faculty, and staff – and transit usage is up as a result. See the article below. The earlier post is at http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/rising-bus-fares-to-ucla-whole-story.html Check out that earlier post for a reference to Prof. Don Shoup’s review of BruinGO! See also http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/electronic-real-time-signage-for-santa.html CSULB students will get a free ride on Long Beach buses Long Beach Press-TelegramPosted: 08/13/2010 07:06:49 PM PDTUpdated: 08/13/2010 07:10:52 PM PDT LONG BEACH – Starting…
The Santa Monica City Council is likely to approve real-time electronic signage that would indicate when buses will arrive. Improved bus stop shelters are included. Several Big Blue Bus lines serve UCLA. The proposal is described as follows: “The Big Blue Bus (BBB) plans to implement electronic real-time signs and a mobile transit application, as part of its bus stop improvement project. These two systems will provide the public with several methods of accessing real-time bus service information. In addition, the systems will work seamlessly with BBB’s existing fleet management electronic infrastructure, as they will utilize the information from the…
