MASS TRANSIT EXPERIMENT STANDS THE TEST OF TIME. EL MONTE BUSWAY'S FIRST 10 YEARS

California Department of Transportation is making plans to expand capacity of urban freeways by establishing busways elsewhere after a decade's successful operation of the first such facility into downtown Los Angeles. The El Monte Busway operates from a terminus of that name 11 miles east of the city via a two-lane highway exclusively for buses and high-occupancy car and van pools. Currently the Busway is being extended another mile to Los Angeles Union Station so busway users will save added time and where connection is to be made with the projected rail transit of Southern California Rapid Transit District. The El Monte project is noted for its three intermediate stations and innovative architectural solutions to problems of separating pedestrian and vehicle traffic while providing unhindered bus movement. At rush hour one lane of the Busway carries 2 1/2 times the people that more on an adjacent regular freeway lane. CalTrans has proposed a billion dollar system of HOV lanes with room in some cases for rail transit. Projected are two other Los Angeles HOV facilities and one for San Diego.

• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Publication Date: 1984-11

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 7-9
• Serial:
  • GOING PLACES
  • Publisher: Going Places

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus lanes; Busways; High occupancy vehicles; Highway capacity; Highway planning
• Identifier Terms: Southern California Rapid Transit District
• Geographic Terms: California; Los Angeles (California)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394563
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM