Draft Final Service Plan
City of Alameda Interagency Liaison Committee
January 30, 2024
1 Presentation Overview
• AC Transit at a Glance
• Project Phasing
• Phase 3 Engagement
• Draft Final Service Plan
• Next Steps
2 AC Transit At
-a-Glance
Rider Demographics: •65% low income •75% people of color •29% Limited English Proficiency •27% of riders are traveling to work •30,000 student trips to and from school every school day Riders During Pandemic: •40% of riders made an essential trip •15% of riders identified as an essential worker •43% riders do not have access to a car We serve
Essential workers, students, low-income individuals, seniors, commuters, individuals with disabilities, and anyone wishing to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Transit Service in Alameda Today
Less than 15 mins
30-60 mins
Other (overnight, commute
hours only)
Line Serving Weekday Frequency
19 Buena Vista - Fruitvale Every 60 min
20 Dimond - Fruitvale - South
Shore Every 34 min
21 Dimond - Fruitvale - Bay Farm Every 34 min
51A Broadway - Santa Clara Every 12 min, combined
96 Alameda Pt. - 14th Ave. -
Dimond Every 32 min
851 Broadway - Santa Clara - All
Nighter Every 60 min
O
Santa Clara - Encinal
Transbay Every 30 min
OX Bay Farm - Park Transbay Varies
W High - South Shore Transbay Varies
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Learn Rider
Needs
Aligning
Guiding
Principles with
Community
Assessment
Develop
Service
Scenarios
and Gather
Feedback
Draft Final
Service Plan
and Plan
Adoption
Develop
Service
Standards
and Inform
Riders about
Service
Changes
Mar-Jun 2023 Jul-Aug 2023 Sep-Dec 2023 Jan-Apr 2024 Apr-Sep 2024 Realign Project Phasing
On 5 -going emphasis on equity and transparency in all project phases and communications Why We’re Here Today
• Summarize What We Heard in Phase 3
• Introduce Draft Final Service Plan
• Call for Public Hearing
• Open Public Comment & Phase 4 Engagement Period
6 Phase 3
Engagement
7 Public Engagement: Phase 3
8 November 1 – December 13, 2023 38,442
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Public Engagement: Phase 3
9 November 1 – December 13, 2023
What we heard: key themes, specific areas
• Strong need for dependable (reliable) service that arrives when scheduled. • Strong support overall for increased frequency.
• Transit-dependent riders in West Contra Costa County and Central/Southern Alameda County, along with Berkeley Hills riders made strong demands to preserve coverage to help them make connections to essential destinations, including BART stations.
Public Engagement: Phase 3 - Responses
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25%
14%
8%
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Balanced Frequent Unconstrained Unspecified
Strong Dislike Dislike Like Strong Like
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11 Key Plan Elements
12 • Built primarily on Balanced Coverage Scenario, retaining more network coverage over expanding frequent network.
• Budgets resources for additional runtime and layover as applicable.
• Applies Guiding Principles, incorporates feedback heard throughout our communities.
• Cost-neutral, operator-neutral.
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Why these elements?
13 • Of the three project guiding principles, community members most emphasized the need for reliable service.
• Community members want an expanded frequent transit network… • …but in equity priority communities (EPCs) & non-EPCs alike, not at the cost of continued cuts in network coverage.
• We’ve heard and are proactively addressing plan feedback from operator in-reach and labor partners.
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14 • Redesigned Line 6 would replace Line 51A in
Alameda.
• Redesigned Line 19 would provide service to
Main Street Ferry Terminal. Frequency would
also be improved.
• Redesigned Line 20 would serve more of
western Alameda.
• Redesigned Line 21 would terminate at Harbor
Bay Ferry Terminal and no longer serve OAK.
• Redesigned Line 96 would provide service to
Brooklyn Basin
• Redesigned Line W would be extended into
Bay Farm Island. Line OX would be
discontinued.
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Alameda
Less than 15 mins
30 mins
Other
45 mins
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Network Frequencies
Existing Network Recommended Scenario
10 minutes or less 2 routes 2 routes
10 - 15 minutes 9 routes 5 routes
15 – 30 minutes 28 routes 34 routes
Over 30 minutes 23 routes 21 routes
Total 62 routes 62 routes
Table excludes supplemental and Transbay Lines
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Next Steps
21 Public Engagement: Phase 4
22 Community
Workshop &
Outreach
Public
Comment &
Hearings
Board
Decision
January 19, 2024 – March 13, 2024
actransit.org/realign
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Develop Plans
+
Learn Rider
Needs
Aligning
Guiding
Principles with
Community
Assessment
Develop
Service
Scenarios
and Gather
Feedback
Draft Final
Service Plan
and Plan
Adoption
Develop
Service
Standards
and Inform
Riders about
Service
Changes
Mar-Jun 2023 Jul-Aug 2023 Sep-Dec 2023 Jan-Apr 2024 Apr-Sep 2024 Realign Project Phasing
On 23 -going emphasis on equity and transparency in all project phases and communications