LONG BEACH TRANSIT

'Long Beach Transit' is a municipal transit company providing fixed and flexible bus transit services in Long Beach, California, United States, other communities in South and Southeast Los Angeles County and Northwestern Orange Counties. Long Beach Transit also operates the Passport shuttle, Aquabus, and Aqualink. The service, while operated on behalf of the City of Long Beach, is not operated directly by the city (such as is done with the bus service operated by the City of Santa Monica), but by a separate corporation operated for that purpose.
Long Beach Transit receives its operating revenue from farebox receipts and state tax revenue distributed by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Contents

Free bus routes

Water taxis

History

Fleet Information

References

External links

Free bus routes

Long Beach has several free bus routes, the "Pine Avenue Link" and ''Passport'' routes, which use mini-buses to shuttle passengers within the downtown area. The Passport "C" route between the downtown and the Queen Mary, and Passport "A" and "D" buses go East-West along Ocean Boulevard, linking the Catalina Landing in the west with Alamitos Bay or Los Altos via Belmont Shore in the east. (The Passport "B" has been renamed the Pine Avenue Link.) A 90-cent fare is required when traveling east of Alamitos Avenue. Another free route, "Village Tour D'art" in the East Village, visits museums and other points of interest.

Water taxis

Long Beach Transit also operates the 49-passenger AquaBus water taxi, which stops at the RMS Queen Mary, West Coast Hotel of Long Beach, Catalina Landing, Aquarium of the Pacific, the Pine Av. Circle, and Shorline Village (The Shorline Village Dock is Under Repairs); and the 75-passenger AquaLink water taxi, which travels between the Queen Mary, the Aquarium, and Alamitos Bay Landing next to the Long Beach Marina.

History

Long Beach Transit began operation in 1963 at the time the Pacific Electric Railway was discontinuing service.

Fleet Information

Long Beach Transit is the first transit agency in the world to introduce production-model hybrid
gasoline-electric buses into passenger service, with features similar to those on a Toyota Prius. The 'E-Power Bus', built by New Flyer will be used on all of Long Beach Transit's routes as they are brought into service.^[1]
Buses have 4-digit numbers, of which the first two digits of the number represent either the year the bus was placed into service or the number of passengers the bus has capacity for. Long Beach Transit operates some 60-foot New Flyer buses.

References

1. http://www.lbtransit.com/about/pdf/epower-fact-sheet.pdf Long Beach Transit E-Power Fact Sheet (Retrieved on 15 Jan 2007)

External links

★ Long Beach Transit Web Site

★ Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority