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In the newspaper today, four new buses. They connect with the San Joaquins directly at Bakersfield, bypassing Union Station. Of course the bus trip will take four hours since it stops at multiple places. But it could work out if you have baggage and would find an MTA connection to Union Station difficult. And it avoids going downtown LA at various less than pleasant traffic times.
You can also connect to the Surfliner by exiting at Van Nuys but you might have to wait a while for the next train. For day trips the MTA to LAUPT would be more convenient.
And remember, the bus leg is an Amtrak trip, worth 100 AGR points.
The Torrance origination is at Alpine Village where the 405 and the 110 meet. Big parking lot there.
-------------------- Vicki in usually sunny Southern California Posts: 951 | From: Redondo Beach, CA | Registered: Aug 2006
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It was indeed the Torrance bus, but the funny thing is, no news reports state WHY the bus caught on fire. The bus had pulled over and all pax were evacuated and they even got *all the luggage* off the bus, before the conflagration. So why did the bus pull over in the first place? What was the initial problem? Must have been something not seemingly too urgent at first if they bothered to open the doors on the bottom of the bus to take out all the bags.
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There was one on-air TV reporter who was giving live commentary as their whirly-bird was hovering overhead, and he said something like, "We don't know why an Amtrak bus would be on this freeway. They seem to be way out of their normal area". I thought that was funny.
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