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Transit OpportunitiesWhile the Tri Delta Transit operating environment imposes manyconstraints that limit long-term transit potential, nonetheless there area number of focused opportunities to significantly increase patronageand improve system efficiency and productivity.The first opportunity is to streamline operations of express Route 300between Brentwood and the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station after thelate 2007 opening of the Highway 4 extension. This extension willreduce transit travel times by at least 15 minutes in each direction,perhaps more if Route 300 “leapfrogs” (bypasses) the Hillcrest Park &Ride Lot during peak hours. This reduced travel time, in turn, mayallow increasing peak period frequencies on Route 300 to every 15minutes, with two route segments running every 30 minutes betweenOakley and BART and every 30 minutes between Brentwood and BART.This route revision could also be the first step towards development ofa bus rapid transit (BRT) network serving East Contra Costa County,particularly serving portions of the ECCTA service area not be serveddirectly by the proposed eBART extension to Hillcrest Avenue.In the short term, other opportunities for improving express busservice are limited, mainly due to the excessive use of limitedoperating resources caused by the consistently severe congestionexperienced on Highway 4 between Pittsburg and Antioch. Once theprogrammed widening of Highway 4 from two to four lanes in eachdirection is completed in the next few years, additional opportunitiesfor improving express service may be available, including possibledevelopment of BRT strategies. The pending widening of Highway 4may also open opportunities for improving local routes as congestion inthe corridor would be relieved on parallel roadways as well as on thewidened freeway.Tri Delta Transit maintains overall fixed route service levels in therange of 160,000-162,000 revenue vehicle hours (RVH) per year,consistent with the increasingly limited financial resources available totransit in East Contra Costa County. Over the past few years, poorlyperforming services have been reduced, and the freed transitresources reallocated to more productive services. Recent examplesinclude previous service adjustments that allowed introduction ofRoutes 383, 384, 385, and 386 in 2005.Tri Delta Transit also began operation of Route 201 betweenPittsburg/Bay Point BART, Bay Point and central Concord to meet aneed for direct service to a large high school attended by many BayPoint students, and health care, shopping, and other opportunities“over the hill” not available in Bay Point. Though Route 201 has beenoperating for less than two months at this writing (late October 2007),productivity already exceeds 12 boardings/RVH, indicating that it islikely to be among Tri Delta Transit’s most productive routes oncepatronage levels mature in 18-24 months. Given the immediatesuccess of Route 201, there are probably a number of otheropportunities to reallocate Tri Delta Transit’s limited resources fromunderperforming services to more productive routes.88
Another potential opportunity for improved service is based on TriDelta Transit’s willingness to consider information technologyimprovements to increase customer service, productivity, improvedmanagement information, and other aspects of transit operations canbe improved. Recently, Tri Delta Transit has successfully implementednew Computer Aided Dispatching/Automatic Vehicle Location(CAD/AVL) technology. Computer software compatible with CAD/AVLsystems, designed specifically for flexible fixed route services–asdistinct from paratransit-specific software such as Trapeze orRoutematch–has been demonstrated in daily service by the Potomacand Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC) in suburbanVirginia outside Washington, D.C. While PRTC is currently the onlytransit system in the U.S. known to use this specific type of flex-routesoftware (though the City of Santa Clarita in Southern California hasspecified the capability to add this capability to their pending CAD/AVLsystem), such software is routinely used by a number of Europeantransit systems for flex routes in areas where regular fixed routeoperations are not justified by patronage. Given the low density ofmuch of the Tri Delta Transit service area, flex routes using this sort ofstate-of-the-art software may help improve productivity and could alsohelp reduce ADA paratransit expenses.Fixed Route Operations PlanTable 5.1 summarizes projected fixed route service levels during the FY2007-08 through FY 2017-18 period. Annual service levels areexpected to increase by about 15% in FY 2007-08 at about 190,000annual revenue vehicle hours (RVH) with little variation, due to addedservice on new Route 201, improvements to the Route 300 schedule,the addition of DX commute service to Martinez, and expansion ofmidday service to every 30 minutes on selected routes. The totalnumber of peak period buses remain at 57 vehicles. These estimatesassume continuing availability of all existing revenues including BARTfeeder bus funds. Service recommendations focus on incremental,revenue-neutral opportunities to reduce or eliminate poorly performingservices, and shifting resources to more productive areas in order toimprove overall system performance.The previous SRTP document based many of its service proposals onthe assumption that BART would implement “eBART” diesel commuterrail service over a 23-mile route between the BART Bay Point station toByron via the Highway 4 freeway median and the Union PacificRailroad’s “Mococo” right-of-way through Pittsburg, Antioch, Oakleyand Brentwood. That proposal included seven potential stationsincluding Pittsburg (Railroad Avenue), two in Antioch (LStreet/Fairgrounds and east of the existing Hillcrest park-ride lot, one89
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