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So many routes, so little time. Only two rides are profiled for August, one from LADOT and one from Metro.

Read all about it after the jump.

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There will be more people driving to Orange County for work in 20 years, even from L.A. County, according to this Los Angeles Times article.

The Orange County Transportation Authority is spending billions to widen roads, add commuter rail service and increase the bus fleet.

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Late buses missed connections are nothing new to bus riders, and they happen to agencies good and bad.
The L.A. Downtown News wrote about problems with the DASH services in the city center.

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Wilshire Boulevard has emerged as again a candidate for a subway to the sea. It is the busiest bus corridor in Los Angeles County, and also has the busiest Metro Rapid line.

The subway may be two decades away, but if local and Rapid service isn’t enough, Wilshire will get … Rapid service. Again.

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I finally started taking transit to work, only a month after I promised. I’ve got a real hook-up at work. I paid only $41 for an EZ pass (normally $58) plus I get a credit of $2.75 everyday I take the bus to work. It takes about an hour riding the 30 to pico/rimpau then the santa monica 7 to Pico/Motor. I’m usually no condition to read in the morning so I take in a little Transit TV, which is where I saw something very very exciting:
Transit Date
It was a short commercial for a dating service the MTA is setting up, but is not yet active. I did a limited scour of the MTA site and found nothing, so part of this post is a call for information.
The other reason is to publically state I will sign up and test the Transit Date service for the benifit of readers and, well, myself.
I love tamales.

Please post any info

For my first two entires in the What a Rush series, I used Commuter Express service in the San Fernando Valley. One is a hard-working line very familiar to thousands of commuters on US-101; the other is a fading relic of mid-to-late 20th century transportation planning.

There are a few more commuter routes in the Valley that I did not try but plan to in the future. Meanwhile, come along on a fantastic voyage. Exact change required.

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