AC Transit: Bay Farm Service Changes
Tonight is the Transportation Commission/Public Hearing on AC Transit’s proposed 15% service reduction. Alameda City Hall – 7:30 pm.
Bay Farm has been very lucky in terms for the bus service that it has had for the past few years. It was scheduled to have 30-minute headways, but AC Transit combined the 15-minute service on Park Street, with the 15-minutes service between Coliseum BART and Bayfair BART and Bay Farm ended up in the middle with 15-minute headways. That’s going to change, as the proposal recommends removing the Harbor Bay Business Park from the route and terminating the route at Harbor Bay Landing shopping center.
Service returns to Aughinbaugh, increasing the number of households with connections to the Harbor Bay Ferry and semi-direct service to Fruitvale BART and Park Street.
The business Park has fewer than 60 riders a day, and decided to use their required shuttle mitigation money to start their own service, instead of working with AC Transit. Therefore, they already have duplicative service and will be able to take up the slack (word is they have been looking at starting a lunch time shuttle to Towne Centre based on the success of their shuttle). 28 people get off the bus at the Airport from Alameda and 30 get on heading to Alameda. (Maybe someday BART and the Airport will spend half a billion dollars sending a slow people mover to Alameda! If there’s one thing Alameda is missing, it’s a long, overhead concrete track running through it that doesn’t stop anywhere. oh to dream!)
Bay Farm Island has about 300-320 bus riders between the residents and ferry riders (not including the business park). Service will be cut in half, but coverage will increase. It will be interesting to see how this changes ridership over the coming year.
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