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Article: Culver City: green buses, green transit: Culver City's CNG buses help keep the air clean.
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- Mass Transit
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- July 1, 2009
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Centrally located between the beach and downtown Los Angeles with a population of about 40,000 is Culver City. The local transit agency, Culver CityBus, was established in 1928 and currently operates seven routes, serving about 5.9 million passengers annually within a 22.5-square-mile area.
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Art Ida, Culver CityBus' transportation director, ended up in transit by chance and has stayed in it by choice. "When I graduated from college I started out working in corporate America," he says as he talks about working for Xerox and then TRW Aerospace in the contract area.
"I saw the government contracts that TRW had and we would ...