Assuming the $1.25 fare goes through, I really hope the state funding issue gets rejiggered so public transpo gets its money back. Then maybe BBB will have some money for this second freeway express route –

The Q&A portion was lively. A man named Jerry got up like four times to sing the praises of the BBB. Another person complained that the Rapid 7 was a poor use of resources, and didn’t like Paul Casey’s explanation that Rapid 7 actually has serves the highest number of passengers per hour in the entire SYSTEM and it may have been that this person saw the bus when the bulk of its passengers had disembarked.

Speaking of Paul Casey, he mentioned that one of BBB’s “medium-range” goals is form a second freeway express route between Santa Monica and the Valley when the NB carpool lane in the Sepulveda Pass is completed.

@Rachel-I agree! Although my sense is that the pricing of monthly parking permits is pretty complicated. A daily permit is $10, which is much higher than the per-day cost of a monthly permit (starts at $63). But then again, many workers in LA are so accustomed to getting parking paid for by their employers (they think it’s free, but there’s no such thing as free parking!) so when they face the prospect of having to pay *something* for parking, some workers decide against driving alone and find another way.

I admire that UCLA does subsidize bus passes for employees (as well as students) but chooses not to subsidize employee parking. The $70ish a month price tag keeps a lot of people on public transit who might drive if it were cheaper!