Update, 3:30 p.m.: Several empty cars lined Carbon Canyon Road Friday afternoon while drivers and passengers watched as emergency responders and the bus driver tried to free the passenger bus that got stuck while making a turn.
Traffic was stopped in both directions on the two-lane street, preventing residents and workers from accessing and leaving homes in the residential area.
“This is totally bad,” said Bartolo, a gardener who was stuck behind the bus while trying to get further up the road to complete work. “I have to do something up there. They’re waiting for me.”
Several people trying to get up the road turned around to park at the bottom of the hill and hike back up to their destination.
Susanne Hamilton, who was on her way to visit family with her husband and daughter, wasn’t fazed by the hike up the hill.
“We walk the hill all the time,” she said. “It’s a nice hike.”
Bartolo said this was not the first time he had seen the road blocked up when a car couldn’t fit the turn, but it was the biggest blockage he had seen.
One bystander, however, said there was a cul-de-sac a little further up the hill where the driver could have safely made the turn.
At about 2:30 p.m., officials estimated it would take about two to three hours to finish removing the bus.
A double-decker tour bus blocked traffic in both directions on Carbon Canyon Road in a residential neighborhood, the City of Malibu reported Friday afternoon. The bus, which was not carrying any passengers, got stuck about half a mile north of Pacific Coast Highway.
“[The bus driver] was trying to turn around and somehow the wheels got stuck in some soft asphalt or dirt,” said Lt. Mathers of the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff station.
Mathers said authorities were “calling in a heavy duty tow truck” to move the bus and it will take two to four hours to unblock the road.
The blockage was first reported at 1 p.m., Mathers said.
