Short Range Transit Plan 2008-2013 - Omnitrans

IBI GROUP
SHORT RANGE TRANSIT PLAN REPORT
OMNITRANS COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT
& SHORT RANGE TRANSIT PLAN
Priority Needs – The following is a brief listing of the unmet needs in order of priority:
Base Route Structures, Frequencies and Spans – The first priority need is to improve the base routes as
they serve the major corridors and markets and are the foundation of the grid system in the East and
West Valleys. Consideration needs to be given to: restructuring several base routes to improve their
coverage and travel time; connecting Routes 14 and 66 with a limited stop service to have uninterrupted
and faster service in the Foothill corridor; extending Route 62 north into North Upland to have
uninterrupted service in the Euclid corridor and south into South Chino to serve the new Chaffey College
campus and Chino Hills; and extending Route 67 west in the Baseline corridor to serve Montclair. Routes
2, 14, 22, 61 and 66 provide 15-minute service which should be the target headway for all base routes;
Routes 3/4 provide 20-minute service, which needs to be upgraded to 15-minutes for consistency
purposes. Route 10 has the demand to justify 15-minute peak service. Routes 2 and 14 have the loads
to justify better than 15-minute service, which would be achieved by operating limited stop or sbX-type
services in the E Street (Route 2) and Foothill (Routes 14 and 66) corridors. Consideration needs to be
given to improving the spans on Route 10 and 67, which are below standard. Improving the base route
structures, frequencies and spans will increase the daily revenue hours by about 250 revenue hours. The
estimated unmet demand for these improvements is 6,000 daily passenger trips.
Local Route Structures, Frequencies and Spans – There is a need to improve the structure of some of the
local routes to improve their performance, reduce the wait and travel times to the main destinations in the
local areas, and provide service into unserved areas. In the East Valley, it would include straightening
and extending Routes 8 and 9 into north and south Yucaipa, straightening and extending Route 15 into
central Redlands to replace Route 31, adding new routes in the San Bernardino Ave East and Sterling
corridors, and extending Route 29 into the Merrill and Cherry/Beech corridors. In the West Valley, it
would include extending the section of Route 60 west of Chaffey College to the Ontario Transcenter in the
south and replacing the section of Route 60 east of the College with an extended Route 70, extending
Route 68 to South Chino to serve the new Chaffey College campus, restructuring Route 70 in the south
and extending to Chaffey College in the north to replace the east section of Route 60, restructuring Route
71 in the south and extending up Sierra to the new developments in the north. The restructuring will
cover the Route 20, 28, 31 and 75 service areas, enabling them to be dropped. The improvements and
extensions will add about 250 daily revenue hours to the service. The estimated unmet demand for these
improvements is 5,000 daily passenger trips.
Commuter Express Services – There is a need to improve the commuter express services into Orange
County from the West Valley. From the East Valley, commuters are well served by Routes 1, 10, 14, 15,
19, 20, and 22 which connect to the Metrolink Stations on the San Bernardino Line into Los Angeles, by
Route 1 which connects to the Metrolink San Bernardino Station on the San Bernardino and Orange
County Lines. From the West Valley, commuters are served by Routes 60, 61, 63, 66, 67 and 68, which
connect to the Metrolink Stations on the San Bernardino Line into Los Angeles, and by Routes 61 and 75
which connect to the Metrolink Stations on the Riverside Line into Los Angeles. As there is only a
limited commuter service into Orange County from the West Valley (OCTA peak period Route 758
between the Chino Transcenter and the Irvine Transportation Center), consideration needs to be given to
providing a more extensive commuter express route between the Ontario and Chino Transcenters in the
West Valley and key attractors in Fullerton and Anaheim (the University, College and Metrolink Station in
Fullerton, the Disneyland Resort). This will add about 100 daily revenue hours to the service. The
estimated unmet demand for these improvements is 1,000 daily passenger trips.
The priority need is to serve a total unmet demand of about 12,000 daily passenger trips, which could
increase the daily service by 600 revenue hours or 30% more than the present system.
9.4 Fixed Route Improvement Strategies
The current routes carry 56,000 unlinked passenger trips on a typical weekday. There is an estimated
unmet demand of 12,000 unlinked passenger trips, which if met would increase ridership to 68,000
unlinked passenger trips on a typical weekday or a market share close to 3% as compared to 2% now.
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