TransitPeople is an all-volunteer Los Angeles non-profit that conducts educational, one day trips for school groups using the public transit system. We ride the Blue Line to the Aquarium, the 81 bus to the Natural History Museum, the Red Line subway to the Central Library, and other rail and bus routes to the attractions listed on our destinations page.
Since 1999 we've completed trips for over 20,000 children from more than fifty schools. Click here for the list.
TransitPeople trip leaders supervise the children during our excursions, with help from other volunteers. We conduct most trips for elementary school classes, but occasionally chaperone middle school groups, too. We provide students with an educational experience they wouldn't have otherwise, and introduce their families to the world of public transit, to the notion that one may travel without a car, even in Los Angeles!
Most of our participants are inner city kids from low income neighborhoods in East Los Angeles, the mid-Wilshire area, South Central Los Angeles and the Pico Union district. Their parents might be able to pay their childrens' admission fees to the zoo or aquarium, but it probably wouldn't be wise for them to try, and TransitPeople might not be a very good idea if they felt that they had to.
So, one of our corporate purposes is to provide financial assistance to the low income families participating in these trips.
TransitPeople has been recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)3 non-profit, public benefit corporation. Insurance for our excursions is provided by NIAC, the Nonprofit Insurance Alliance of California.
| TransitPeople P.O. Box 811817 Los Angeles, California 90081 | Voice : (213) 637-0409 Fax : (213) 947-1168 transit@transitpeople.org |
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