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Culver CityBus

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Public transit bus agency serving western neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, CA

Culver CityBus is a public transport agency operating in Culver City, California, currently serving Culver City, the unincorporated community of Marina del Rey, and the adjacent Los Angeles neighborhoods. Its regular fleet is painted bright green and its rapid fleet primarily a chrome gray, distinguishing it from Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus, orange-colored Metro Local buses, and red-colored Metro Rapid buses, whose coverage areas overlap on Los Angeles's Westside.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Mar 3, 1928Founded¹

Websitewww.culvercity.org/enjoy/culver-city-bus

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The story

Culver CityBus was founded on 3 March 1928, making it the second oldest municipal bus line in California and the oldest public transit bus system still operating in Los Angeles County. Big Blue Bus was founded on 14 April 1928, the San Francisco Municipal Railway began streetcar service 28 December 1912.

CityBus participates in the LA Metro system's GoPass program, allowing K-12 and community college students at participating schools to ride the Culver CityBus for free, among 15 other transport services in the county.

From Wikipedia’s article on Culver CityBus, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

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Service area

Within its service area of around 25.5 square miles, the Culver CityBus provides service to the communities of:

Venice

Westchester

Westwood

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West Los Angeles

Palms

Playa Vista

Marina del Rey

Mar Vista

Century City

Culver City

Bus fleet

Active fleet

Culver CityBus also maintains a fleet of largely electric circulator vans (used on its downtown circulator routes, for example 1C1) and support and paratransit vehicles including Nissan Leaf's and electric vans.

Future

Culver CityBus has announced intentions to replace its entire fleet with battery-electric buses by 2028, in time for the 100th anniversary of its founding and the 2028 Olympic Games, while avoiding early retirement of its current fleet, assuming a 12-year useful service life.

Culver CityBus was slated to receive 6 additional battery electric buses in 2022 from New Flyer. However, the agency canceled the order and abandoned their 2028 electrification commitment. In December 2024, the agency released a new rollout plan, which directs the agency to continue procuring CNG buses in the meantime. Despite being a smaller transit agency, Culver CityBus lags behind neighboring agencies such as LA Metro, Gtrans, and Big Blue Bus, who have committed to electrification by 2035, 2034, and 2030, respectively. Those agencies have begun electrification of their depots and have Battery Electric Buses in regular service, which Culver CityBus does not.

As of December 2024, their new rollout plan abandons the purchase of battery electric buses on a yearly basis through 2028 and instead delays their electrification commitment to 2040. As a result, Culver CityBus will be the last agency in the larger LA metropolitan area to operate CNG buses.