MOVING THE WORLD

Southern California Rapid Transit District will be utilizing its bus-only system for transportation for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Widely dispersed housing for participants and sites for the various competitions up to 200 miles apart will produce many new travel trips in the nation's second megalopolis where highways already operate far beyond design capacity. Starting a year in advance, the SCRTD Olympic Task Force has been planning and implementing plans for facilities, equipment, fares, schedules and staff. There will be 550 buses operating exclusively on 25 special routes at peak when regular transit services are not supposed to suffer any degradation. Up to 5000 charter buses may be at the events and will have to be parked and serviced, even through they are not part of SCRTD operations. SCRTD will receive little aid from the Olympic organization and will have to finance its service on its own while keeping a separate set of accounts for the operation. It is expected they will bus about 400,000 new riders daily, up from the present ridership of 1.6 million per day. A separate box describes preparation for the New Orleans Worlds Fair.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Bobit Publishing Company

  2500 Artesia Boulevard
  Redondo Beach, CA  United States  90278
• Publication Date: 1984-3

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: 4 p.
• Serial:
  • Metro
  • Volume: 80
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Bobit Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 10098-0083

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Financing; Forecasting; Olympic games; Routing; Scheduling
• Identifier Terms: Southern California Rapid Transit District
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California)
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus services
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00386376
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1984 12:00AM