It took me a couple days of researching the San Diego MTS Web site to find the most suitable solution for my trip. The reason why it took me a couple days versus a few minutes was because I was searching for a bus that I had seen many a time while I was driving south on the 15 every evening from the Carmel Mountain area. I saw it in the carpool lane and it looked more like a tour/travel bus than the traditional buses. The MTS search engine didn’t work the first few times I tried using it. Later I went through the region maps to look at the routes and found a few that appeared to start in downtown and make their way to the Poway/Carmel Mountain area. After reading each of their associated schedules I realized that these special commuter buses were only going in the direction of traffic in each part of the day. This meant that it was going the opposite way that I needed to travel; it went south in the morning when I needed to go north and vice versa. So I was back on another search. (more…)