If you live in North Shore in the Eastern Coachella Valley -- and you don’t have a car -- you better have plenty of patience. There's only one bus line, Line 95, and it comes only once every three hours.
North Shore sits about 20 miles south of Coachella. It’s sandy, hot and dusty. There’s no grocery store and no medical clinic. Some parts of the remote hamlet have a spectacular view of the Salton Sea, once a playground for the Palm Springs set, now a polluted cesspool that you can smell when the wind picks up.
I teamed up with youth journalists from Coachella Unincorporated to spend a day riding Line 95. Residents are grateful for the line. Until a few years ago, there was no bus service here at all.