On any given weekday morning, about the time the sun peeks over the mountains that ring Los Angeles County, hundreds of Metro buses roll from their divisions and begin a long day crisscrossing the region’s wide boulevards and endless freeways.
Metro runs the second-busiest bus system in the U.S. with 900,000 or so boardings on the average weekday. The numbers are telling: 170 bus routes with more than 15,000 stops amid some of the heaviest traffic congestion in the nation.