Short Range Transit Plan 2008-2013 - Omnitrans

IBI GROUP
SHORT RANGE TRANSIT PLAN REPORT
OMNITRANS COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT
& SHORT RANGE TRANSIT PLAN
• The Beech corridor in Fontana (about 8,000 people).
• The area around the San Bernardino Airport, including San Bernardino Avenue
and the Sterling corridor (about 15,000 people).
Base Route Structure – Base routes should be operated in a straight-line structure on the main arterial
roads in the urban transit service area. They should be oriented as much as possible to the main travel
destinations and timed-transfer centers. In the existing system, Routes 2, 3/4, 5, 10, 14, 19 and 22 in the
East Valley, and Routes 61, 62, 65, 66, and 67 in the West Valley are classified as base routes
connecting major destinations and operating in the major transit corridors. Four of base routes have
deficiencies in their structure:
• Route 19 should be restructured to operate in the Lugonia corridor (when the
road is improved) so that the duplication with Route 8 in the Redlands corridor is
reduced and the Route 15 diversion into the Lugonia corridor can be can be
eliminated.
• Route 62 (south section) should be extended to cover the full Euclid corridor into
North Upland.
• Route 65 south of the Chino Transcenter needs to be extended to the unserved
areas of South Chino west of Pipe Line.
• Route 67 should drop the Euclid section and extend the route to the Montclair
Transcenter.
Local Route Structure – Local routes need to support the base routes by circulating the various cities
and corridors in the service area. In the existing system, Routes 1, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 20, 28, 29, 31 and 90
(which is an express route but provides local service to the East Valley) in the East Valley, and Routes
60, 63, 68, 70, 71 and 75 in the West Valley are classified as local routes. The following local routes
have deficiencies in their structure:
• Route 8 needs to be restructured to reduce the diversions and the duplication
with Route 19.
• Route 15 should be straightened, particularly in the Orange corridor.
• Route 28 needs to be changed or dropped, possibly by restructuring Route 71 to
serve the Route 28 service area.
• Route 60 needs to be restructured by extending the west section to the Ontario
Transcenter in the south, and dropping the east section and extending Route 70
to serve the east section’s service area.
• Route 68 should be extended to serve South Chino and the new Chaffey College
campus.
• Route 70 needs to be restructured so that Route 75 can be replaced, and the
route needs to be extended into the Haven corridor and to Chaffey College so
that the east section of Route 60 can be replaced.
• Route 71 needs to be restructured in South Ridge so that Route 28 can be
replaced, and extended up Sierra to Sierra Lakes Parkway.
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