Santa Monica Daily Press

Big Blue Bus needs big changes, director says

CITY HALL — In what many considered an unusually frank report, Ed King, director of the Big Blue Bus, laid bare what he saw as deficiencies in Santa Monica's award-winning transit system to the City ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Big Blue Bus stops bus charter program

CITY HALL ¬ó City officials have announced their intention to end an underperforming charter program for the Big Blue Bus that has made the bus system ineligible for a number of federal grants. As of ...
Business Wire

Hayden AI Partners with Big Blue Bus on Bus Lane and Bus Stop Enforcement Pilot

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is completing testing of camera-based bus lane and bus stop enforcement technology on Route 3 and Rapid 3. The bus-mounted ...
LAist

Big Blue Bus Fares Getting a Little Bigger

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Los Angeles Magazine

Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus Adopts New Safety Rules

Crime has more than doubled on L.A.’s Metro system in the last five years, jumping from 0.84 crimes per 100,000 riders in 2019 to 2.18 this year. The transportation authority spends nearly $200 ...
KCRW

The “Crisis” of the Big Blue Bus Stops

Santa Monica’s new Big Blue Bus stops are intended to provide comforts for riders and an iconic look for the transit agency. But the new stops have ignited complaints from many of its riders about ...