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Santa Monica, Ca. #835J Santa Monica Municipal Bus
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Santa Monica, Ca. #835J Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines SM Good For One Fare Zone SM 16mm Brass First used in 1969. Please check our store for other tokens. Thanks for looking.
How It All Began
At the turn of the last century, the Pacific Electric Railroad ran trolley lines between Downtown Los Angeles and neighboring cities. During a recession in 1914, a group of unemployed automobile owners began using their cars to compete with the railway in Santa Monica. These drivers charged riders five cents and were called jitneys, a common name at the time for a nickel.
In 1921, as the population of Santa Monica doubled, business boomed and the jitney drivers incorporated as Bay Cities Transit Company, and they were soon operating buses throughout the city. In 1928, the City of Santa Monica launched its own bus line and over 16,000 passengers rode the new buses the first week. They chose a blue color scheme for their buses and called their service Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines.
By 1947, the regular bus rate was 10 cents, but costs kept rising and both the City of Santa Monica and the Bay Cities Transit lines were losing money. In 1950, Bay Cities Transit sold out to Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines, by now more commonly known as the Blue Bus. Today, the transportation agency has a fleet of approximately 210 buses and carries 21 million passengers a year. The name was officially changed to "Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus" in 1999 at which time the agency also changed the graphic design to the eye-catching "ice blue" currently on each bus.
The Big Blue Bus has won the American Transportation Association's Outstanding Achievement Award for the 4th time since 1983, and continues to be one of the most efficient, customer-friendly transportation systems in the world
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