GTrans
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| Parent | City of Gardena |
|---|---|
| Founded | January 15, 1940 (as Gardena Municipal Bus Lines)[1] |
| Headquarters | 1700 West 162nd Street, Gardena, California |
| Locale | Gardena, California |
| Service type | bus service, paratransit |
| Routes | 6 |
| Daily ridership | 8,900 (weekdays, Q3 2024)[2] |
| Annual ridership | 2,131,500 (2023)[3] |
| Website | ridegtrans |
GTrans is a municipal transit agency that serves Gardena, California and surrounding Los Angeles County neighbourhoods. It was founded on January 15, 1940, as Gardena Municipal Bus Lines. On the agency's 75th anniversary, the agency was renamed as GTrans.[4] The bus lines complement the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's crosstown routes through the city.[1] In 2023, the system had a ridership of 2,131,500, or about 8,900 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
Routes
As of September 2021, GTrans operates 3 daily routes, 2 weekday routes and 1 event route. Weekend service is provided on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.[5]
| Line | Direction | Terminals | via | Days of Operation | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westbound / Northbound | Eastbound / Southbound | |||||
1X
|
North-South | Downtown LA 1st St & Main St |
Redondo Beach Redondo Beach station |
In Downtown LA: Main St Express Portion: Harbor Transitway In Gardena: Vermont Av, Gardena Bl, Marine Av |
Weekdays | Serves Harbor Freeway station on the freeway level |
| South LA Harbor Freeway station |
Weekends | |||||
2
|
Clockwise / Counterclockwise | Harbor City Normandie Av & Pacific Coast Highway |
Western Av, Normandie Av, Vermont Av | Daily | Serves the Harbor Gateway Transit Center on the Normandie/Vermont route | |
3
|
West-East | Redondo Beach South Bay Galleria |
Compton Compton station |
Alondra Bl, Gardena Bl, Redondo Beach Bl | Daily | |
| Torrance Bishop Montgomery High School |
Gardena 163rd St & Vermont Av |
School days | Two westbound morning peak & two eastbound afternoon peak trips on school days only | |||
4
|
West-East | Lawndale 147th St & Hawthorne Bl |
Gardena Harbor Gateway Transit Center |
Marine Av, Van Ness Av, 135th St, Normandie Av | Weekdays | Suspended as of April 4, 2020 as part of service changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its schedule has also been removed from the GTrans website, although it is still identified on the site's homepage. |
| Torrance El Camino College |
Gardena Gardena High School |
Van Ness Av, 135th St, Normandie Av | School days | Two eastbound morning peak & one westbound afternoon peak trips on school days only | ||
5
|
West-East | Westchester Aviation/LAX station |
Willowbrook Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station |
El Segundo Bl | Weekdays | |
7X
|
North-South | Inglewood SoFi Stadium |
Gardena Harbor Gateway Transit Center |
I-110, I-105, Crenshaw Bl, Imperial Highway, Hawthorne Bl, East Arbor Vitae St | Sundays only | Line 7X runs on Sundays only every fifteen minutes between 9:30 a.m. & 8:30 p.m., with later hours for evening football games. This is a direct route, there are no stops in between. |
References
- ^ a b About Us, GTrans, retrieved 22 July 2015
- ^ "Transit Ridership Report Third Quarter 2024" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
- ^ "Transit Ridership Report Fourth Quarter 2023" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. March 4, 2024. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
- ^ jack (2015-02-04). "Gardena Municipal Bus Lines Changes Name to GTrans and Debuts New Electric Bus". SUSTAINABLE RACE. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- ^ Routes & Schedules, GTrans, retrieved September 13, 2021
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