在 ServiceModel 客户端配置部分中，找不到引用协定“TranslatorService.LanguageService”的默认终结点元素。这可能是因为未找到应用程序的配置文件，或者是因为客户端元素中找不到与此协定匹配的终结点元素。
Though the roads in Los Angeles routinely jam with honking cars in the morning, there is also an almost invisible commuter class — the millions of people, most of them poor, who depend on the sprawling bus system.
Local officials push public transportation as the path to an environmentally friendly future, with plans for a subway to the sea and miles of other rail projects in the region. But at the same time, the financially struggling Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is cutting back dozens of bus lines and shortening routes to save money that they say would be better spent elsewhere.
So the 305 line, which snakes from Watts in the southeast to Westwood in the northwest, will soon be gone, replaced this fall by what officials say is a more efficient hub-and-spoke system with trains and other bus routes. For the people who fill the bus each morning, the prospect sounds daunting.
“Changing lines means I will never know what time I get from one place to another,” said Guadalupe Lopez, who has used the same route for more than a decade to get to her housekeeping jobs. “It might get to the point where it is not worth it, it will just take me too long. But nobody where I live is going to pay me to clean houses.”
The fight over the city’s buses stretches back decades. In 1996, advocacy organizations filed a civil rights lawsuit saying the transportation authority had not done enough to keep its fares low or prevent overcrowding. A consent decree mandated federal oversight for the next decade and required the system to spend $1 billion to add new lines and more buses on existing routes. But that oversight expired in 2006, and the Bus Riders Union filed a complaint that helped prompt an investigation of the agency that is scheduled to begin this month.
The 305 was one of several lines created under the consent decree, and it is the only direct route from the city’s impoverished southern neighborhoods to its affluent West Side, where legions of janitors, nannies and maids work each day.
A few students boarded a bus one recent morning at the route’s starting point, but they were off again a few stops down the road. As the bus edged through the center of the city, it began to pick up its morning core — a loosely knit group of women who work at homes in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Bel-Air.
They quietly chatted about the best way to use herbs to cure their ailments or lose a bit of weight. They compared notes on the right way to align their posture after spending hours on their feet. When they are exhausted, they quietly lean their head on their seatmate’s shoulder and doze off, a silent acknowledgment of their comfort and ease with one another.
Ana Hernandez might be considered the matriarch of the group. She regularly brings her Avon catalogs on board, selling inexpensive perfume and lipsticks to the other women.
“Good morning, how are you? How is your son and how is your nephew? Are things better?” Ms. Hernandez said as she stepped on the bus, her questions tumbling out in one breath. When the woman next to her seemed to tire of chatting, she changed seats to talk to another acquaintance.
Marina Tejada’s two adult daughters often accompany her on the three-hour round-trip trek, helping her clean the same home where she has worked for more than a decade. “This is just what we have to do, so we are used to it,” Ms. Tejada said. “I’ve never had a car, never driven here. Most of these women say the same thing. So this is how we work. It’s the only way we know to get there.”
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