OCTA celebrates 35 years with longtime customers

To help celebrate the Orange County Transportation Authority’s 35th anniversary, the agency is searching for people who have been riding buses since the service was launched in 1972. A party is scheduled Aug. 31.

When the agency started bus services, 16 buses were in the agency’s fleet, and they transported 38,000 people in their first month of operation. Today, 900 buses provide 220,000 trips a day to Orange County destinations.

Bus fares Aug. 31 will be 35 cents, and a party bus will travel the county in September giving free rides and special prizes to random passengers.

Long-time Orange County Transportation Authority bus riders should call (714) 349-3846 for information about the party.

— Alicia Robinson