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Thursday, September 17, 2026

Free Bus

From UCLA Newsroom: UCLA is helping ease employees’ commute to campus — and reducing their carbon footprint — by expanding access to its fare-free public transit program. UCLA employees earning less than six figures annually are now eligible for a free quarterly transit pass that provides unlimited access to 13 major Southern California transit systems, including L.A. Metro’s bus, rail and Metro Micro services, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, Culver CityBus, Long Beach Transit, LADOT Transit, Antelope Valley Transit Authority, Santa Clarita Transit, Foothill Transit, Gardena GTrans, Montebello Bus Lines, Norwalk Transit System, Pasadena Transit and Torrance Transit.

...Modeled after income-based health insurance tiers, the Tier 1 Plus program provides a free quarterly transit pass to UCLA and UCLA Health employees who hold at least a 43.75% appointment and earn less than $100,000 annually. Roughly 20,000 employees are eligible...

Full announcement at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-transportation-free-public-transit-employees-less-than-100000.

Particularly if you take the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, just be careful what bus you get on:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJa-KQNjQU.

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