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OCTA proposes route, schedule changes for September 2010
Submitted by Steven on 19 July, 2010 - 2:08am
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OCTA gave a preview of their bus system's proposed minor schedule and routing changes for this coming September 2010. OCTA staff are considering changes to 19 bus routes.
CEO Will Kempton wrote in a letter to the Transit Committee on June 24, 2010 on some of the proposed changes:
- Line 1 (Pacific Coast Highway): Restore winter schedule all days
- Line 20 (Imperial Highway): Adjust running time (operates weekdays only)
- Line 21 (Valley View St): Trip deletions weekdays due to low demand.
- Line 24 (Malvern Ave/Chapman Ave): Trip deletions weekdays due to low demand.
- Line 29 (Beach Boulevard): Adjust connections all days; increase service frequency on weekdays.
- Line 30 (Orangethorpe Avenue): Revise Anaheim Hills turnaround loop
- Line 43 (Harbor Boulevard): Adjust connections all days ; increase service frequency on weekdays.
- Line 47 (Anaheim Boulevard/Fairview Street): Adjust connections all days
- Line 50 (Katella): Increase service frequency on weekdays.
- Line 59 (Kraemer/Glassell/Grand/Von Karman): Saturday-Sunday improve headways from 90-minutes to 65-minutes
- Line 60 (Westminster Avenue/17th Street): Adjust weekday running times Line 64 (Bolsa Avenue/1st Street): Add weekday afternoon trip westbound
- Line 64 (1st St): Increase service frequency on weekdays.
- Line 70 (Edinger Avenue): Adjust weekday running times; revise turnaround loop at Tustin Station during construction all days of the week
- Line 76 (Talbert Avenue/MacArthur Boulevard): Revise route to allow connections with Line 79 to/from UCI; adjust weekday running time (operates weekdays only)
- Line 79 (Irvine Boulevard/Culver Drive/University Avenue): Revise route to operate on campus at University of California Irvine (UCI)
- Line 83 (Santa Ana Freeway/Main Street): Extend weekday evening trip southbound to originate at Disneyland instead of downtown Santa Ana; revise route to serve Orangewood Avenue all days of the week
- Line 90 (Irvine Center/Moulton Parkway/Golden Lantern): Adjust weekday running time; weekday mornings extend one short trip and add one full length trip; revise turnaround loop at Tustin Station during construction all days of the week
- Line 129 (La Habra/Brea/Birch/Kraemer): Adjust weekday running time; trip deletions weekdays due to low demand; Saturday-Sunday improve headways from 90-minutes to 65-minutes
- Line 143 (Whittier/Harbor/Brea/Birch): Weekdays add one evening trip; other possible trip deletions on weekdays; Saturday-Sunday improve headways from 75-minutes to 65-minutes
- Line 153 (through Anaheim): Trip deletions weekdays due to low demand.
- Line 175 (Yale Avenue – Campus Drive): Revise turnaround loop to better serve Mariposa Villa
- Line 211(Seal Beach-Irvine 405 Express): Revise route at Golden West Transportation Center
- Line 213 (Brea-Irvine 55 Freeway Express): Revise route to serve UCI campus
Some of these changes are shown in the map OCTA released below:
For Orange County transit riders, doomsday comes later this year: 59 bus routes and all UC Irvine routes may be cut
Submitted by Steven on 16 April, 2009 - 11:26pm
The financial "doomsday scenario" now has a deadline: June 2010.
OCTA just posted a dedicated section of their site outlining their cuts and explaining the budget situation. They have a list of 59 routes that they say they may curtail service on or are considering for outright elimination. Let me break it down for you. I modified their system map with these cuts (click on the image to the left; 400 kb PNG file). A summary of potential cuts:
- 59 bus routes may be cut, along with...
- All 24-hour service
- All "community bus" service
- Nearly all community shuttles
- Nearly all intra- and inter-county express buses
Santa Ana, for example, will find a lot of their bus service cut, leaving behind a skeleton of local service for the transit-dependent.
It's now impossible to get to the airport:
But I think, worst of all, it's now impossible to get to and from UC Irvine. OCTA may eliminate lines 59, 79, 175, 178 (along with 213 and 473), stranding students, faculty, employees, and, well, making the UC Irvine U-pass useless.
Of course, that's my interpretation of what OCTA posted. I've pasted the summary from OCTA's page. Got any thoughts? Make sure you send your comments to them! read more→
