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Big Blue Bus

City of Santa Monica, dba: Big Blue Bus · Santa Monica, CA · NTD ID 90008

Big Blue Bus reported 145 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 2 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 3.16 events per million vehicle revenue miles - though it runs less than 15M miles across the rate window, too little service to rank against the national field without the arithmetic turning to noise.

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Events per million miles
3.16
below the ranking floor · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
145
#92 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
2
90 injured, 0 seriously
Service driven
12M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 37 events in that window
Who died on this system
  • Suicides 1
  • Other or unclassified 1

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 2. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 6 → 2025: 17 · peak 17

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 0 worker assault events 2015: 0 worker assault events 2016: 0 worker assault events 2017: 0 worker assault events 2018: 0 worker assault events 2019: 0 worker assault events 2020: 0 worker assault events 2021: 0 worker assault events 2022: 0 worker assault events 2023: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 1 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

1 total · peak 1 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 145

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.

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Numbers on the chips are events per million vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024.

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Generated 2026-07-13 02:56 UTC

Source: FTA National Transit Database - Major Safety and Security Events, joined to NTD Metrics for the service denominator