Long Beach Transit

Long Beach Transit

Long Beach Transit New Flyer D60LF
Founded	1963
Headquarters	1963 East Anaheim Street
Locale	Long Beach, CA
Service type	Bus service
Routes	33 fixed routes and Passport
Fleet	220
Daily ridership	82,900 (Q4 2010)
Fuel type	Diesel, Gasoline-electric hybrid, CNG
Operator	Long Beach Public Transportation Company
Website	lbtransit.com

Long Beach Transit is a municipal transit company providing fixed and flexible bus transit services in Long Beach, California, United States, in other communities in south and southeast Los Angeles County, in and northwestern Orange County. Long Beach Transit also operates the Passport shuttle, Aquabus, and Aqualink. The service, while operated on behalf of the City of Long Beach, is not operated directly by the city (such as is done with the bus service operated by the City of Santa Monica), but by a separate corporation, the Long Beach Public Transportation Company, operated for that purpose.

Long Beach Transit receives its operating revenue from farebox receipts and state tax revenue distributed by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Long Beach Transit began operation in 1963 at the time the Pacific Electric Railway was discontinuing service. The primary service area of Long Beach Transit has been the city of Long Beach and to a limited extent the enclave city of Signal Hill, but it has also provided service to surrounding communities in Los Angeles County, including Lakewood, Cerritos, Norwalk, and Seal Beach in neighboring Orange County.

The company has operated various types of bus services. During the 1970s and 1980s, it also ran small shuttle buses in the downtown area, called DASH (for Downtown Area Short Hops), and because the routes were shorter, the fare was lower than on the regular buses.