Metro showed off a sleek silver-and-red design for its buses Monday, the first tangible step in what officials have promised will be a new era of comfort, speed and reliability for the agency’s notoriously unpredictable bus network.

“It’s really our hope that people who wouldn’t normally take the bus will see this beautiful bus and want to take it,” Metro bus chief Milo Victoria said.

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