Culver CityBus

Founded	March 3, 1928 [1]
Headquarters	4343 Duquesne Avenue, Culver City, California[2]
Locale	Southern California
Service area	Los Angeles County
Service type	Bus service
Routes	7 local - 1 Rapid
Fleet	52 heavy-duty transit buses
Daily ridership	5,000,000+ passengers annually[1]
Fuel type	CNG
Operator	City of Culver City Transportation Department
Website	Culver CityBus

Culver CityBus is a public transport agency operating in Culver City, California, currently serving Culver City, the unincorporated community of Marina del Rey, and the adjacent Los Angeles neighborhoods. Its regular fleet is painted bright green and its rapid fleet primarily a dull gray, distinguishing it from Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus, orange-colored Metro Local buses, and red-colored Metro Rapid buses, whose coverage areas overlap on Los Angeles's Westside.

History

Culver CityBus and Big Blue Bus were founded in 1928, making them the oldest municipal transit agencies in California.

Service area

Within its service area of around 25.5 square miles,^[1] the Culver CityBus provides service to the communities of:

• Venice
• Westchester
• Westwood
• West Los Angeles
• Palms
• Marina del Rey
• Mar Vista
• Century City
• Culver City

Routes

As of January 2011, the Culver CityBus operates 3 daily routes and 5 weekday-only routes within Los Angeles County.^[3] Among its 5 weekday routes, the Culver CityBus operates a Rapid route (Rapid 6).

• # Weekend service is provided on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.^[2]

Fares

2001 New Flyer C40LF #7087 at Wilshire Boulevard & Westwood Boulevard.

• † Blind and children five years of age and under may ride free (maximum 2 children w/ accompanying adult).
• ‡ Proper identification must be presented to obtain the reduced Student and Senior/Disabled/Medicare fare.

UCLA Student and staff

Culver CityBus and Santa Monica Big Blue Bus participate in BruinGo program, in which UCLA students and staff can show their BruinCard (university ID) to the driver so that the university pays a part of the fare. ^[5]

Current Fleet Roster

• Notes:

Culver CityBus currently operates an all New Flyer fleet of 52 buses. All buses run on CNG. Culver CityBus has retired its old fleet, mostly made of buses by Flxible, TMC/RTS, and Gillig.

All buses are numbered 70—and 71--.

Buses were originally painted green and white, but all buses were repainted to all green in 2000.

In 2008, large decals honoring Culver CityBus's 80th year of service were affixed to buses and were later removed in 2009.

Culver CityBus began operating six New Flyer C40LFR buses on the new Rapid 6 starting on January 4, 2010.

Rapid Buses are painted primarily a dull gray to distinguish themselves from the regular bright green buses.

In 2012, Culver CityBus took delivery of 20 New Flyer Xcelsior XN40 Buses and started operating some of them beginning in late May 2012 with the rest to be phased in by late June.^[6]

References

External links

• Culver City Bus