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Transit Board Hears Route Debate
More bus routes are needed to get students to California State University, Long Beach. But residents near Spinnaker Bay don’t want the buses coming down Eliot Street. That was the main conflict presented to the Long Beach Transit Board of Directors on Monday in a 90-minute public hearing. While the hearing was about a host of changes to various routes, it was primarily changes to the Passport B and D routes in east Long Beach that drew attention. The Passport B, which currently runs through the greater downtown area, would take on a new route by making a few stops downtown, then head east along Fourth Street (replacing some of the existing bus routes on that street), stopping at Retro Row and heading all the way out to the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium area. It then would go down Eliot Street to turn onto Bellflower Boulevard and go north to the CSULB campus before heading back downtown. Continue reading Grunion Gazette.