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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.
sbalax Member # 2801
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Vicki--
On tonight's (7/17/09) news was that the Torrance bus they showed burning on the side of the freeway? Everybody was OK but the bus was a total loss.
Frank in cool and dark SBA
20thCenturyLimited Member # 1108
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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.
HopefulRailUser Member # 4513
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Good grief, I didn't hear about this. Will look forward to the morning paper.
smitty195 Member # 5102
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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.
mr williams Member # 1928
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Thankfully nobody was hurt but just nine passengers on a 50 seater bus?
It would probably have been cheaper to put them in taxis.....
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