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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 10/08/2025

Good luck to all the SDHS Cavers headed back to school next week! Hope to see some of you at UC San Diego in the years to come :D

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 31/07/2025

They are new CNG Xcelsiors to replace the 600/700 series of buses headed to LA Metro! Here's one at IAD a few weeks ago, just before they went into service.

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 21/01/2025

Thinking about the MLK Jr. K Line station today: one of the first transit projects I got to explore on my own, and such a meaningful community space. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK Jr.

Detail of Shinique Smith's "Only Light, Only Love" on view in the MLK Jr. station mezzanine.

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 30/12/2024

All Samuel Transit light rail vehicles now come equipped with the original seating pattern from LA's 45' Compo and Articulated buses. You're welcome.

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024

Here's the obligatory layover shots. Also finally started Jarrett Walker's Human Transit on the 888 - a long overdue read. TL;DR: Explore your area with transit! Go beyond your local routes and go the furthest you can go! You never know what you might find. (/end)

Route 888 on "layover" in Campo, CA, at Highway 94 & Buckman Springs Rd. I put "layover" in quotes here since it showed up on time but left late due to a broken PRONTO reader. Things you can do when a route runs twice a week, I guess.

A humble low-floor urban bus parked at Highway 94 & Buckman Springs Rd in Campo, CA. The driver bought tamales from a street vendor while on layover, but I had a transfer to catch.

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024

894 was full out of El Cajon, packed out of Rancho San Diego, and half the pax got off at the Jamul Casino. There were some 888 offs at Viejas Casino too. Lotta gamblers out there 😭

Inside view of a minibus as it rounds a tight curve along Willows Rd in Cleveland National Forest, just east of the Viejas Indian reservation.

A view from the window of a low-floor urban bus as it passes by a sweeping brush-lined canyon along Highway 94 near Dulzura, CA.

A marker sign in Steele Canyon, CA, in front of an old-fashioned wagon and a family restaurant. From this point, according to the sign, you are 17 miles from San Diego, 2.5 miles from Jamul, and 33 miles from Campo.

A full low-floor urban bus with multiple standees running on a road viaduct along Highway 94, outside Rancho San Diego, CA.

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024

The Rural routes are long, but there's so much to see along them. From the sprawling canyons along SR-94 to the small-town post offices and the tall trees of Cleveland National Forest, I don't think anything has given me more love for my region since my first time on NCTD's 101.

A wide, sweeping view of Highway 94 from the window of a low-floor urban bus as it rounds a curve near Potero, CA.

A panoramic view of the hills along Highway 94, seen from a low-floor urban bus, near Jamul, CA.

Looking out the window of a minibus as it makes a tight curve onto an unpaved road in Morena Village, CA.

Looking out at the green-covered hills of Cleveland National Forest, from I-8 in Buckman Springs, CA.

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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024

Earlier this week I went to the easternmost point that MTS serves on every weekday - Campo, California! Specifically, I tried the only way to day-trip a full Rural line from SD without doubling back: routes 894 & 888. (more pics in thread, 1/4)