Outside a convenience shop on Seventh Street, Isaac Martinez waits with a hunter’s disposition as his prey heads straight into his gun sight.
A Hyundai Sonata has surged from a pack of cars and is closing fast from a distance of several hundred feet. Martinez pulls the trigger on his lidar gun, which emits a muffled beep before a flash on his digital display reads 50 mph — in a 30 mph zone.
Martinez has been driving a Metro bus around Long Beach for about a year and said he’s noticed the afternoon drivers are typically more aggressive. Driving a bus in the city, Martinez says, it’s a practice in “testing your patience.”…