El Monte Busway

El Monte Busway
I-10 ExpressLanes
Metro J Line bus running east on the El Monte Busway stops at Los Angeles General Medical Center
Overview
System	Busway & High-occupancy toll lanes
Operator	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA)
Began service	January 1973; 51 years ago (1973-01)
Routes
Routes	J Line Metro Bus: Express 487, Express 489 Foothill Transit: Silver Streak, 490, 493, 495, 498, 499, 699
Locale	Los Angeles County, California
Start	El Monte Station
End	Union Station
Length	12 miles (19 km)
Stations	4
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The El Monte Busway (also known as the I-10 ExpressLanes) is a 12-mile (19 km) shared-use express bus corridor (busway) and high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes running along Interstate 10 between Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles and Interstate 605 or El Monte Station in El Monte, California. Buses also make intermediate stops at Cal State LA station and LA General Medical Center station. The busway opened in January 1973 to buses only, three-person carpools were allowed to enter in 1976, and the facility was converted to HOT lanes as part of the Metro ExpressLanes project on February 22, 2013.

The El Monte Busway is used by two bus rapid transit routes: the J Line, operated by Metro and the Silver Streak, operated by Foothill Transit. It is also used by several Metro Express and Foothill Transit bus services, most of which only run during weekday peak periods.

The busway now carries 16,000 bus passengers per day with 49 buses using the system each hour at peak times^[1] and was described by the United States Department of Transportation as one of the most successful HOV facilities in the country in 2002.^[2]