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LA Times: Bus-only lanes debut on Wilshire Boulevard
By Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
June 5, 2013, 12:31 a.m.
Buses rumbling through morning traffic on Wilshire Boulevard may move slightly faster Wednesday with the debut of bus-only lanes along one of Los Angeles County's most congested corridors.
The 1.8 miles of lanes between MacArthur Park and Western Avenue are some of the first of their kind in the county and one piece of a larger transit corridor that will be finished late next year. The $31.5-million Wilshire Boulevard project calls for 12.5 miles of modifications between downtown and Westwood, including 7.7 miles of bus lanes.
The improvements are long overdue, officials said Tuesday, and a step toward bringing Los Angeles' public transportation system up to par with cities such as Boston, New York and Madrid.
"For the foreseeable future, and perhaps forever, buses will the backbone of our transit system," Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Deputy CEO Paul Taylor said. Later this month, Metro is expected to announce five more corridors that could be modified in similar ways. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bus-only-lanes-20130605,0,2062657.story