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South Bay Service Council hosting special meeting Wednesday evening to discuss Metro bus lines 210 and 710

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The Metro South Bay Council will host a special evening meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, February 27, at 6 pm to receive public input on Metro Lines 210 and 710 serving Crenshaw Blvd.

All of the Metro Service Councils have selected specific lines in their regions to develop ideas on how to improve Metro Bus on these corridors. The South Bay Service Council is asking the public to attend and share their suggestions about improving service on Lines 210 and 710 at tomorrow’s special meeting.

The meeting will be held at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, First Floor Community Room (between Sears and the LAPD Substation, by Stocker Street entrance), 3560 Martin Luther Kings Jr Blvd, in the City of Los Angeles. If you are not able to attend the meeting, but would like to submit recommendations about either or both of these routes to the Service Council, please send your comments to servicecouncils@metro.net.

For more information about this corridor study, and all of the corridor studies being conducted by Metro Service Councils, click here to read a previous posting on the subject.

Inglewood: public hearing on proposed Metro bus service changes

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Helen Lundeberg's The History of Transportation, Inglewood (Photo Credit: Joel Epstein)

The Metro South Bay Cities Service Council held its monthly meeting Friday at Inglewood City Hall. The meeting also served as a public hearing on several proposed Metro bus service changes impacting the communities represented on the Council. The meeting included roughly two dozen Council members and Metro staff and a few members of the public.

Scott Greene, of Metro’s Service Planning and Scheduling Department, explained the proposed changes, including a proposal to swap the buses being run on Line 40 with the larger articulated buses currently running on the 710 and 740 Rapid routes. With ridership on Line 40 generally heavier than on the 710 and 740 Rapids, Metro reasons that using the larger capacity buses on Line 40 will accommodate more riders, particularly on Sunday when the 740 Rapid does not run.

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