Casino Shuttle Buses Are Good for Casino Business, but Are They Bad for Gamblers?

Recently the City of San Gabriel voted to ban parking for buses that carry mostly Asian people to Native American gambling casinos, and even Las Vegas. They’re part of a cottage industry that’s divided that city, Monterey Park, Koreatown and other Asian communities in recent years. Timothy Fong is co-director of UCLA’s Gambling Studies Program and Associate Professor at Psychiatry at the Neuropsychiatric Institute.