Torrance, like a number of cities in the LA area, has its own municipal transit service. It provides 11.5 (11, with one having an express version that takes a slightly different route) routes across its area and into other neighboring cities. A small number of other agency's routes also enter the city, like Metro's 344 and 232, and Gardena's 2 running along the eastern edge of the city. This is insufficient for a city of nearly 150,000 that is also a job center for the region and has reputable schools which attract a lot of people from other cities. Traffic heading into the city from all directions is terrible during the morning rush hour, and in the evening the reverse situation occurs.

A long time ago (about a year and a half ago), I came up with the idea of improving their bus service, and made a Google My Map with 16 routes, 8 running north-south and 8 east-west. I then upgraded it with a small hub-and-spoke set of lines radiating from the new Torrance Transit Center and three progressively larger loop lines that go around the city and supplement bus routes at their cores. The map can be found here, which is an enormous improvement to the existing routes. It also makes the new transit center a hub for buses, and in the future, the K Line, with seamless transfers to and from LAX and beyond.

I think this is necessary because Torrance has an oversized student and worker population, with large amounts of people coming from other cities along a limited number of crowded roads in their own personal cars. With the density of this new network reaching a large number of places within the city and a lot of connections to other cities, getting to work or school would become a lot easier, as well as circulating within the city.

However, Torrance is a hard-to-convince city, and would be resistant to this if I, an unqualified armchair urban planner, emailed the map and a quick document to them, without anyone to back me up. So I came up with the idea to make this petition to show the city that they need to provide an improved transit system with better frequencies. By signing this, you add another voice to the desire for a better urbanist future. Regardless of how few or many people sign, I will create a document and give the proposal at some time, that's up in the air again. More dark green buses for everyone!