THE PENINSULA
- Share via
The Rolling Hills Estates and Palos Verdes Estates city councils this week approved a weekday peak-hour fare increase for Palos Verdes Transit. The increase was approved by Rancho Palos Verdes on Aug. 6.
Starting Sept. 9, a one-way ride will cost $1.50 between 7 and 9 a.m. and 1 and 4 p.m. The majority of Palos Verdes Transit’s riders are school children and the peak-hour fare applies during the school year.
The regular one-way fare will remain $1. In July, the regular fare was increased to $1 from 75 cents.
Palos Verdes Transit is a dial-a-van transportation system operated by Rancho Palos Verdes. It also serves Rolling Hills Estates and Palos Verdes Estates. A 30% increase in operating costs for the was cited as the reason for raising the fares.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
