SM transit will operate, expand where it can
Big Blue Bus workers were scrambling Tuesday to accommodate thousands of passengers put out by the MTA strike.
Not only are more people packing into Santa Monica’s buses since MTA workers walked off the job early Tuesday, but they are looking to the transit agency for information on how to get around Los Angeles while thousands of workers fight for better health benefits.
“We are having a lot of call volume,” said Big Blue Bus spokesman Dan Dawson. “We normally get 250 calls a day and by 10 a.m. (on Tuesday) we already had 600.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 15, 2003. Read the original PDF.