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The El Monte Busway, is a high occupancy vehicle lane running from Los Angeles (Los Angeles Union Station) to El Monte, California.
The busway opened in 1974 to buses only, then became open to carpools in 1976. The eastern terminus of the busway was near El Monte Bus Station in El Monte at Baldwin Avenue, until it was extended 2 miles (3.2 km) in 2005 to I-605. The busway runs largely parallel to the San Bernardino Freeway, part of Interstate 10 in California, where it occupies the space between the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 10. The Metrolink San Bernardino rail line tracks lie in between the eastbound and westbound lanes of the busway. The western terminus of the busway is at Alameda St. near Union Station. The resulting carpool roadway is one of the few indisputably successful* mass transit projects undertaken in Southern California. Bus ridership is approximately 18,000, and in addition to the 100 buses an hour along the busway during peak periods, the roadway carries 1,600 carpools and vanpools during peak hours.[1]
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