地道美語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力播客:Taking the Bus in Los Angeles

I just moved to L.A. and don’t have a car. Everybody says that you can’t get around this city without one, but I wanted to prove them wrong .
I asked my neighbor to take me to the downtown bus station so I could try taking the bus home. She thought I was crazy but gave me a ride . When I got there, I went inside and got abus schedule . I looked at the map and figured out that I needed to take three buses to get home. The fare was $1.75 per ride and I could buy a single ticket , a booklet of 20, or a bus pass . I would need transfers , too, to change buses.
I took my map and went outside to wait at the bus stop for the Number 8 bus . Soon itpulled up and I got on . I gave my ticket to the bus driver and took a seat. At the stop where I needed to get off , I rang the bell, the bus stopped, and I got off. I waited for the next bus. I waited and waited. A man who was also waiting for the Number 14 bus said that it wasn’tunusual for the bus to be delayed . It finally got there and I found out that the bus hadbroken down along the route and they had to get another bus to take its place . By this time, I was getting pretty tired. Maybe getting a car in L.A. wasn’t such a bad idea .
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse