MTA’s Line 576

Life has a way of reacquainting us with people in the backs of our memories. On July 4, I read “Crosstown Bus Links 2 Worlds” and met Elaine Williams, whose daughter Betty I worked with at my first job in the theoretical physics department at UCLA, in 1966. Betty and I both had long bus rides from different parts of the city and often arrived on campus exhausted from having to get up so early.

It’s good to know that Betty’s mother’s bus ride is less strenuous now than it was back in the ‘60s. It’s even better to get to meet the mother Betty so admired, in your article. Thank you for another fine depiction of life in Los Angeles. I hope the article raises the consciousness of those who allocate resources for the different routes and makes them reflect long and hard before even entertaining a thought of discontinuing Route 576.

MARIAN MAGRUDER BRANCH

Hawthorne