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# Riding on anger
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/riding-on-anger/
- Published: 2007-11-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:51:02.000Z
- Author: Melody Hanatani
- Tags: Education, Sunset Park, #archive-import

Sunset Park residents upset about new SMC bus route SUNSET PARK Each weekday, from dawn to dusk, the front of Jeff Bender’s home becomes a hangout for college students.

Three times an hour, a Mini Blue Bus filled with passengers stops at the intersection of 20th and Pearl streets, near Santa Monica College, and unloads up to 50 riders in this residential neighborhood in Sunset Park.

The passengers, the majority of which are SMC students, occasionally lounge in front of Bender’s home on the 1800 block of Pearl Street, hang their backpacks on his fence, block access to his garage in the alley, litter and smoke near the windows, he said.

It’s just one of the gripes that Bender and a group of residents living in the vicinity of the bus stop have had with the relatively new Sunset Ride since its launch in August, complaining to the Big Blue Bus and Santa Monica College that the new route — which has drawn more than 2,500 boardings a day in the past three months — should instead be redirected to Pico

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 8, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110807.pdf?ref=smdp.com)