Whittier Transit was a local shuttle bus service in the city of Whittier, California. Its historical debut was in July 1985, and it initially offered two distinct-but-overlapping routes : north of Lambert Road, and south of Lambert Road ( in es, Route 1 traveled from Whitwood to Uptown, while Route 2 was the Northwest Loop). Fare was 25 cents per direction . It shared many pickup spots with RTD (now, MTA); however its most unique provision was its routing within the city's residential streets . This offered many "stop-gap" pickup / drop-off zones for residents of inaccessible-to-bigger-buses neighborhoods . The vehicles utilized by Whittier Transit were initially Ford E-350 vans which were bus conversions ; they were CNG powered . At sometime in the 1990's, the van-based buses were abandoned in favor of Trolly-style buses . New routing was devised ; and eventually connections to local Metro lines, Foothill Transit, Montebello Bus Lines and Norwalk Transit were expanded . In 2006, the lines were merged into the Norwalk Transit System
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