1 Realign Update
City of Alameda/AC Transit Interagency Liaison Committee (ILC) Meeting
September 5, 2024
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Develop Plans
+
Learn Rider
Needs
Aligning
Guiding
Principles with
Community
Assessment
Develop
Service
Scenarios
and Gather
Feedback
Draft
Plan/Draft
Final Plan
and Service
Standards, and
Plan Adoption
Implementation/
Inform Riders
about Service
Changes
Mar-Jun 2023 Jul-Aug 2023 Sep-Dec 2023 Jan-Oct 2024 Oct 2024-Mar 2025 Realign Project Phasing
On 2 -going emphasis on equity and transparency in all project phases and communications 2 Public Engagement: Phase 4
Engagement metric highlights:
• 23,116 Website Views
• 529 Online survey tool responses
• 180 Community events
o 5,784 Touchpoints
• 49 emails
• 6 Phone calls
• Social Media Performance
o 45,836 Impressions
o 1,774 Engagements
May 5 through June 5, 2024
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Public Engagement: What We Heard
Positive Sentiments Negative Sentiments
• Support better transit connections
• Support more direct routes
• Support maintenance of coverage
• Appreciated increase in frequency
on more lines
• Concerned with Frequency
reductions
• Concerned with consolidation of
Lines 51A and 51B
• Concerned with level of service in
central Alameda, Berkeley Hills
and El Cerrito Hills
5 Adjustments to Draft Plan
• Reflects significant public and operator feedback
• Maintain Lines 6, 51A, and 51B
• Move Line 7 terminal in Emeryville from Amtrak Station to Public Market • Line 19 shortened to downtown Oakland
• Line 20 in Alameda Point extended west to Pan Am Way
• Line 21 split between Skyline High School and Chabot Space & Science Center • Adjust Line 29 to downtown Berkeley, route instead via Sacramento & Stanford/Powell
• Adjust part of Line 73/805 routing near Coliseum BART 6 • Adjusted Line 29 provides new service on
Alcatraz and Stanford and extends to downtown
Berkeley
• Adjusted Line 96 now provides service to
Brooklyn Basin
• Service on Ashby is now provided by new Line
27 • Line 19 operates between downtown Oakland
and Fruitvale BART.
• Line 21 no longer serves OAK Airport, replaces
Line 39 service on Skyline and serves Chabot
Space & Science Center
• Adjusted Line 20 provides new service on
Alameda’s West End, extends to Pan Am Way
• Slight frequency reduction on Lines 54 & 73
Northern
Alameda County
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Frequency and Reliability Impacts*
+ 35.5%
population with access
to 15-minute service
+ 53.7%
jobs with access to 15-
minute service
+ 22.9%
zero-vehicle
households with access
to 15-minute service
8 lines changed to
improve reliability
*As compared with current network, approximations using 2020 Census numbers 8 Paratransit Impacts • Paratransit coverage area currently frozen at larger 2019-era network
• Grandfathering has cost and policy
implications
• Estimated ~100 active paratransit
clients would fall outside of ¾ mile
range of fixed-route in Draft Final
Plan
9 Realign (Mar. 2025)
• Operator/Cost-Neutral
• 85% of Pre-Pandemic Service
Levels
Realign+ (on-going)
• Operator and FundingDependent
• 100% of Pre-Pandemic
Service Levels
• Focused on Priority Transit
Network
Vision Plan (long-term)
• Operator and FundingDependent
• Aspirational, unconstrained
network plan
• Incorporating what we’ve
heard from riders, public,
advocates, and
municipalities.
Realign Service Levels
(from near- to long-term)
Covered within the scope of the public hearing
10 Realign+ : Invest in Primary Route Network
1. Line 72R
2. Line 1T (every 7-8
minutes)
3. Lines 51A/B (every
10 minutes)
4. Line 14
5. Line 62
6. Line 88
7. Line 73
8. Line 36 (based on
existing Line 36/79
alignment ridership)
9. Line F
10. Line 54
11. Line 76
12. Line 27 (based on
existing Line 7 and
Line 79 ridership)
13. Line 12
14. Line 52
15. Line 299 (based on
existing Line 99
ridership)
Frequency and Span Minimums
Weekdays:
5:00 – 12:00 a.m.
at least every 15 minutes:
7:00am – 7:00pm
Weekends:
6:00 – 12:00 a.m.
at least every 20 minutes:
7:00am – 7:00pm
11 Next Steps:
Note: Vision Plan to be refined in early 2025.
Public
Hearings
Service
Standards
Final Plan
Decision
Draft
Final Plan
August 7
Set Public Hearings and
Open Public Comment Period
September 9-11
Convene Public Hearings,
Close Comment Period
October 9
Board votes on Final Plan
We are
here
September 25
Service Standards Draft
Email us at [email protected]
Call us on our Community Project Line:
(510) 267-5631 (English) • (510) 267-5632 (Spanish) • (510) 267-5633 (Mandarin) • (510) 267-5634 (Cantonese)
Attend a Public Hearing:
September 9 at 6:00PM • September 10 at 9:00AM • September 11 at 2:00PM or 6:00PM
Submit your comment card in the Realign drop box at the library.
Share your feedback on proposed bus line changes
at actransit.org/realign.
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