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grade-separated bus ways. This kind of bus way tends to have thegreatest ridership, as demonstrated by the bus ways in Pittsburgh, theOttawa Transitway, and the El Monte Bus way in Los Angeles. Avariation on grade-separation is operation of extensive express busservices over high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes along freeways.Numerous examples exist in the Bay area including Tri Delta TransitRoute 300; the Vallejo Baylink express buses along I-80 serving the ElCerrito Del Norte BART station and supplementing the Baylink ferries;the Golden Gate Transit commuter bus network serving Sonoma andMarin County commuters to downtown San Francisco; AC Transittransbay buses; Samtrans express buses operating along U.S. 101;and a number of other operations. Numerous examples also exist inother U.S. cities, the most prominent in New York City and New Jersey(e.g., the Lincoln Tunnel bus lanes into the Port Authority BusTerminal); the Shirley Highway from Virginia into Washington, D.C.;the Houston Transit ways serving buses to downtown Houston andvery large volumes of carpools and vanpools; HOV lanes/bus ways inDenver; and other U.S. cities.One drawback of HOV lanes along freeways for transit service is thatmidday transit volumes will be relatively low, mainly because freewaysare not located optimally for transit-oriented, walk able development,and such “all day” destinations favorable to transit are often wellbeyond walking distance from freeway alignments even in cases wheretransit stations are provided.BRT Options for Eastern Contra Costa CountyDetermining what BRT options may be feasible in the Tri Delta Transitservice area first requires understanding the context of local transittravel patterns. According to the analysis in Table 4.1 developed fromon-board survey origin and destination data for “linked” transit trips,about 30% of Tri Delta Transit patrons stay within their immediatecommunity of origin, about 30% begin and end their trips at BART ortransfer between routes at BART, and the remaining 40% travelbetween communities within East County. These patterns, includingtrips to and from the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station are showngraphically in Figure 4.19.Table 4.1 Estimated Weekday Transit Trip Origins & DestinationsFROM / TO Brentwood Oakley Antioch Pittsburg Bay Point BART Other TOTALBrentwood 263 56 78 78 11 56 17 559Oakley 70 112 48 34 0 31 0 295Antioch 95 48 1,190 405 119 309 214 2,380Pittsburg 133 40 226 479 133 293 67 1,371Bay Point 35 0 70 210 140 280 35 770BART 120 40 519 333 253 0 67 1,332Other 0 0 168 84 38 0 0 290TOTAL 716 296 2,299 1,623 694 969 400 6,99778