Sign the petition for faster, reliable bus service on Colorado Blvd
Let’s improve transit service on Colorado Blvd
Bus service through Old Pasadena is painfully slow and unreliable. Despite thousands of people using the multiple bus routes along Colorado Blvd every day, riders on Metro, Foothill Transit, and Pasadena Transit have to suffer long waits through this congested corridor, which slows down bus service and makes it less reliable for everyone who uses these heavily-used routes. And while drivers have the option to use faster parallel streets, such as Union/Green or Walnut, transit riders are forced to endure the congestion on Colorado.
What’s more, this problem may only get worse. Metro is currently planning a bus rapid transit line to link Pasadena to Glendale, Burbank, and the San Fernando Valley. Pasadena is the only community along the route that will lack dedicated bus lanes. With more buses set to use Colorado Blvd in the near future and ridership projected to increase, we believe Pasadena should be proactive and realize the full potential of its current and future transit service.
We are calling for the installation of bus-only lanes along Colorado Blvd through Old Pasadena, between Pasadena Ave and Los Robles Ave. Portions of this stretch of Colorado have only one travel lane in each direction, with the rest of the street taken up by disruptive diagonal parking. We believe this is a wasteful use of space, better served by restoring the parallel parking lane and using the remaining space for a bus-only lane that will take buses out of traffic, reducing congestion for everyone and speeding up the journeys for the thousands of transit riders that use Colorado Blvd’s many bus routes. Bus lanes will multiply the climate-positive and smog-reduction benefits of this bus rapid transit system. If Pasadena is going to reach its ambitious climate goals, bus lanes are a powerful tool to reach those goals!
Let’s make transit service better! We call upon the City of Pasadena to implement bus-only lanes on Colorado Boulevard between Pasadena Ave and Los Robles Ave, to make bus service along Colorado faster and more reliable for the thousands of transit riders who rely on it every day!
Read a more detailed breakdown of our proposal and some answers to commonly asked questions here.