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# Bus rider doesn’t get it
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/bus-rider-doesnt-get-it-editor/
- Published: 2003-10-09T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:04:19.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

*By Hyun Joo Chung*

My name is Hyun Joo Chung and I am a Santa Monica College student. Most Santa Monica College students who do not live on the westside have to take up to three busses to get to school and I do not understand why.

Three busses means a lot of wasted time on the bus. I board the first southbound 754 Rapid on Olympic/Vermont to get to Pico/Vermont to board the 30 or the 31\. Then at the Pico/Rimpau station I have to change busses again. Why can’t one bus go from Pico/Vermont to Pico/18th Street, Santa Monica. I don’t understand. Venice Boulevard is run by one MTA bus from east to west. Why is Pico so difficult? I am sick of transferring from the MTA 30 to the Santa Big Blue #7.

Something needs to be done, when the bus is already packed at La Brea/Pico, one of the earlier stops.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 9, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/100903.pdf?ref=smdp.com)