Work never really ends for the city of Glendale transit staff in terms of surveying and implementing improvements to bus stops in the city, but the 2025 fiscal year — ending July 1 — has seen major progress on the issue.
Councilmember Lauren Tolmachoff and then-Councilmember Joyce Clark brought bus stop inadequacies to the forefront during a March 5, 2024, council budget workshop. Tolmachoff asked the city to include more pullout lanes near bus stops, and use remaining funding to improve bus stop seating facilities and shelters.
Out of that budget process came an annual funding source of $225,000 for bus stop-related improvements. Glendale budgeted $162,000 in fiscal year 2025 for new and replacement bus stop structures, Transit Administrator Nathan Whyte said.
