Santa Monica Daily Press

Big Blue Bus needs big changes, director says

CITY HALL — In what many considered an unusually frank report, Ed King, director of the Big Blue Bus, laid bare what he saw as deficiencies in Santa Monica's award-winning transit system to the City ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Big Blue Bus gives free money to almost 9,000 people

The Big Blue Bus (BBB) gave away transit fares worth $392,794 during its inaugural Buy One Get One (BOGO) promotion. The BOGO program ran for 17 weeks starting in May and was designed to capitalize on ...
The Harvard Crimson

The Blond Boy in the Big Blue Bus

For Aidan M. Fitzsimons ’20-25, home is a cornflower-blue school bus. It’s 36 feet long and eight feet wide, with a T-444E diesel engine of legal drinking age. There’s a dreamy rendition of Van Gogh’s ...
KCRW

The “Crisis” of the Big Blue Bus Stops

Santa Monica’s new Big Blue Bus stops are intended to provide comforts for riders and an iconic look for the transit agency. But the new stops have ignited complaints from many of its riders about ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus Adopts New Safety Rules

Crime has more than doubled on L.A.’s Metro system in the last five years, jumping from 0.84 crimes per 100,000 riders in 2019 to 2.18 this year. The transportation authority spends nearly $200 ...