Montebello Bus Line 10

Bad service. Always late. If you call an complaint with reasons never action against the problems. If you seconds away from bus stop and bus Driver see you and takes off and you call an complaint they will tell you have to be on time. If they late they have nothing to say or wound answer the phone. If bus Driver don’t show up to work in the morning on the first run or trip and no bus shows up they don’t answer the phone or they say they having problems with bus. They cover up bus drivers instead of respecting the public who created this jobs and maintaining jobs with the need of public transportation or low incomes.
City hall know all the problems because it’s the same problems at their meetings to the community. They all fire.

This bus comes frequently and goes to a lot of useful areas.
And here is what I hate about it…
This bus line literally has a stop every 100 feet when it cruises through pico river and montebello. This slows down the route and always causes me to miss busses i wanna transfer to by a matter of minutes. For example: there is a bus stop b4 an intersection. people get on and the bus moves. three seconds later, the bus crosses the intersection and stop right away again. why are there two damn bus stops for the same line on the same intersection??? fucking lazy people cant walk!!! this bus stops way too much. metro buses only stop at every city block, which makes them efficient, but montebello buses stop every 20 goddamn feet and i am sick of it. and this particular line doesnt even go all the way to east los angeles after 9 pm on a weekday, so i end up stuck whereever the hell i am at! please remove these pointless bus stops u have montebello!!! u can literally shave off ten minutes from a trip to east los from pico rivera. u can also shave off 5 more minutes by not picking up all those people in wheelchairs! it seems like too many young people r using wheelchairs now too! i see them moving their legs once they r on the bus. just never makes sense to me. they just wanna pay the discounted bus fare.

This busline has saved my ass so many times, trying to get from downtown and East LA to Whittier and back. And it comes often. As with all buses, there’s the usual sketchy characters and occasionally crabby drivers, but for $ 1.10, in this economy?! Heck, I’se jellies of the folks who live along this route!

When I was living in Whittier and working part-​time in Downtown L.A., I decided to try riding L.A. buses. My trips home on the MTA 18 line could be sketchy, as was almost every wait for the 18 on Skid Row after dark, but my rides to work were always painless. Why? Because of the amazing Montebello Bus Lines.
For some reason, the City of Montebello, a suburb east of Los Angeles, operates its own bus lines. And although there are only ten routes, they service a huge swath of eastern L.A. County. (Some of the routes don’t even enter Montebello at all.) The buses are relatively new and are always clean. And the fare is cheap. It was eighty-​five cents when I rode it back in 2001, but it has increased to only $ 1.
I rode Line 10 for the first part of my trip, from the Whittwood Mall to the corner of Atlantic and Beverly Boulevards. I sometimes had to wait too long to catch the bus, but its route is efficient, and all the drivers were nice, which is amazing to me now – I ride the bus every day in San Francisco and see a lot of angry and rude drivers.
If you’re doing what I did and going from eastern Whittier to Monterey Park, it’s definitely faster to drive than to take the 10, but the ride itself is pleasant enough, and especially for people who can’t drive, this is a much more pleasant experience than riding most Metro buses.