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El Monte Transit operates 5 fixed routes operating in loops with terminal at El Monte Trolley Station on Center Avenue. In addition, two shuttle services also connect commuters with the El Monte Metrolink Station .
El Monte Station is a large regional bus station in the city of El Monte, California, United States, adjacent to Interstate 10, serving the Metro J Line, Foothill Transit, Greyhound Lines, and El Monte Transit. It is the Metro J Line's eastern terminus.
The station is located directly across Railroad Street from the El Monte Trolley Station, the hub for the city's El Monte Transit system. Each of the agencies five color-coded routes (Blue, Green, Orange, Red, Yellow) stop at the Trolley Station every day of the week. [7]
The El Monte Busway stations received a similar refurbishment in January 2015. Transit Access Pass (TAP) card ticket machines were added to stations in early 2017 to support all-door boarding on J Line buses. [15] Metro has also added a new station on the El Monte Busway at Union Station that opened on November 1, 2020. [16] [17]
The El Monte Busway (also known as the I-10 ExpressLanes) is a 12-mile (19 km) shared-use express bus corridor and high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes running along Interstate 10 between Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles and Interstate 605 or El Monte Station in El Monte, California.
The first busway in the Los Angeles area was the El Monte Busway, which opened in January 1973. The El Monte Busway, which runs parallel to the San Bernardino Freeway, offered an 18-minute trip between El Monte and Downtown Los Angeles, compared to 35–45 minutes in the general-purpose lanes. [2]
The J Line runs 38 miles (61 km) along Interstate 10 and Interstate 110 between El Monte Station and downtown San Pedro. [33] Foothill Transit also operates a bus rapid transit system called the Silver Streak, which runs from Montclair to Downtown Los Angeles along the El Monte Busway on Interstate 10. [34] Other bus systems:
Metro ExpressLanes: High-occupancy toll lanes on the El Monte Busway and Harbor Transitway. Metro Freeway Service Patrol: A joint effort between Metro, Caltrans, and the California Highway Patrol offering free quick-fix repairs and towing from freeways. Metro Micro: An on-demand transit service, operated using vans in 8 zones around the region [16]