Increasing bus service on Metro

Local 256By: Israel Figueroa, Reyes Lucero, Yair De

Jesus, Toby Benitez

Background• Metro Local Line 256

runs between Commerce and Altadena

• According to the official Timetable, bus frequency is about 45 minutes

• Passengers do not like waiting for the next bus.

ProblemBus service is limited in this bus.

Passengers have to wait a very long time for the bus to show up.

The service on the line runs on

Current ridership Monday thru Friday:

Morning: 70-100 each way.

Afternoon: 60-90 each way.

Some of these buses get very full and passengers have to be standing, wait a long time for the bus to begin with.

Who takes care of bus Service?

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro) is in charge of buses in Los Angeles County.

The person that in charge in timetable and increase of bus service is Conan Cheung.

Proposed solutionWe want an increase of bus service in this route.

Having service increase from 45 to 30 minutes, mostly during rush hour.

This includes having two additional buses

More open seats.

PetitionTo get our proposal to the public and to Metro Representative, we created a petition.

Timetable

Effects to the customer

For the customer, no actual changes.

Everything is kept at Metro Official bus fare.

Effects to Metro

Action TakenFor our petition, we took the bus.

Both northbound and southbound.

We also got comments from the public, including

Increasing to 20 minutes

Instead of 31ft buses to 40ft buses.

Half of the people who signed our petition are residents that surround the 256.

Action TakenWe met up with Metro’s Conan Cheung,

Presented our plan.

His conclusion:That adding more buses cannot be approved.

To decrease non-rush hour and/or weekend service.

How much does it cost yearly?At $ 1000 per day.

To shorten where the bus route travels.

ReflectionOur next steps, include:

Revising the timetable

Allocating funding to increasing service.

Thank You