Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus will join the regional TAP system starting in March, officials announced Wednesday. According to the local transit agency’s website, “Starting March 2015, you can pay with Stored Value, an EZ transit pass on your TAP…
The City Council Tuesday night unanimously voted to send a plan for a City-owned Expo-adjacent site in Downtown Santa Monica back to the drawing board. The Council called for staff to return in February with a revised plan after expressing concerns…
Plans for a new bus layover site south of the 4th and Colorado Expo Light Rail station will go before the City Council tonight, but not everyone is happy with the proposed $8 million plan. The plan to redevelop the…
Santa Monica’s new Big Blue Bus stops have been a point of contention recently among some locals. Some five years in the making, the $7 million, federally-funded redesign of the stops would bring seating, shade, and, at some stops, even…
It has been a long time coming, but Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus finally opened its first stops with real-time bus arrival information Thursday evening. The first two of what Big Blue Bus (BBB) officials say will be more than…
Summer is almost over, but there is no lack of things to keep us busy between now and the fall. Here are just a few of the many events coming up in the next week that you won’t want to…
With Expo Phase II expected to begin carrying passengers between Downtown L.A. and Downtown Santa Monica in the first quarter of 2016, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is considering some major changes to its service. Later this month, BBB…
Big Blue Bus officials announced Wednesday that they would add seating and shading to some of the 40 new stops the agency recently installed as part of its $7 million overhaul of Santa Monica’s 300 bus stops. The announcement comes…
When it comes to mobility beyond the private automobile, bus systems preform a lot of the heavy lifting. They are spatially efficient, carrying dozens of people in a fraction of the space otherwise distributed in cars, are more energy efficient…
Big Blue Bus (BBB) has just begun the gargantuan process of figuring out how to best integrate its system with the Metro Expo Line Phase 2, set to open in early 2016. Three of the seven new stations being built…
Yesterday, we warned you that change is coming to Santa Monica. The good news is, it appears that the city’s transit agency is readying itself for that change. The Big Blue Bus has long been the face of transit in…
Wednesday night, Big Blue Bus held a public meeting at the Main Branch Library to discuss service changes primarily to take place in 2014 and new fare box systems that are coming in 2014. Staff also mentioned the need for further input…
