At the November 16, 2023 BPAC meeting, AC Transit’s Maria Henderson, External Affairs Representative, and Owen Goetze, Transportation Planner will present AC Transit Realign, a comprehensive review of AC Transit’s bus network to respond to shifts in riders’ travel patterns. Each draft service scenario has been shaped by community input concerning crucial travel needs, and each scenario demonstrates how it will advance community mobility. AC Transit is seeking comments on the preliminary service scenarios between November 1 and December 13, 2023, to help inform the development of a single preferred service plan for implementation in August 2024.

An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation.

Service Scenarios Overview

• Cost-Neutral
  • Stay the Course — Balanced Coverage Scenario
  • More Frequency, Less Coverage — Frequent Service Scenario
• Unconstrained (Pending funding availability)
  • More Frequency, More Coverage — Unconstrained Vision Scenario

Balanced Coverage Scenario

Keeps today’s balance between core service and providing network coverage.

• Improves access to many destinations
• New coverage to areas with high transit demand
• Simplifies routes to improve reliability and travel time
• Better matches service frequency to customer demand

Frequent Service Scenario

Focuses more frequent service in denser areas at the cost of network coverage.

• All local routes provide weekday service at least every 30 minutes
• Better frequency on busier trunk routes
• Simplifies routes to improve reliability and travel times
• Eliminates less productive local lines and route segments

Unconstrained Vision Scenario

• Expanded frequent service, expanded coverage, more revenue, operators, buses, bus garages needed.
• Restores pandemic suspensions, with some changes to support equity and reflect new travel patterns.
• Proposed on-demand microtransit zones where fixed route service expansion is less practical.

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