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TransportationCommission | 2007-10-24 | 4 | 3. The current route goes up Park Street, down Encinal, up High over to Fernside, and out to Fruitvale BART. The idea was discussed of a more direct line to Fruitvale BART, going up Broadway (saving considerable time); that would be implemented in conjunction with other modifications. AC Transit is in the process of evaluating Line 51. 4. It was suggested that the 63 be shifted to Shoreline Drive between Grand Street and Willow Street, as there is more housing density and greater ridership potential. 5. The route by Encinal High School went to Pacific, Marshall, Lincoln, down Webster Street. A more direct route would be to continue straight down Central. While a fairly dense corridor, and therefore it was not recommended. 6. With respect to operations near the Ferry Terminal, the route currently ran along Main Street, went into the Terminal, stops, and exits to Alameda Point. The option was to establish stops along Main Street, away from the Ferry Terminal, which would require a 600-foot walk to the terminal from its present location. That option would save approximately one minute in each direction. 7. They discussed maintaining the existing route along Otis Drive and relocating the stops to Otis Drive, removing them from Alameda Towne Centre. That was estimated to save approximately two minutes in one direction, one-and-a-half minutes in the other, and eliminates the bus having to slow down for traffic and pedestrians through the route. The major disadvantage would require shoppers to take their groceries out to Otis Drive. Staff Bergman noted that subcommittee's recommendations were as follows: 1. To eliminate the portion of the Alameda Point route along Monarch Street, saving approximately two minutes; 2. To implement the reroute away from Encinal High School during the non-peak hours associated with the school. He noted that AC Transit indicated that if it was not possible to make sufficient cuts to reduce run time that they may be obligated to add an extra bus because of their obligations to their drivers. The subcommittee did not reach a consensus regarding how to proceed given this scenario. Two options were discussed by the subcommittee: 1) The additional bus could operate on Line 63 on an interim basis, while the Transportation Commission would have a specified amount of time to develop a plan to use that bus most effectively. If no plan is developed, the additional bus should be removed, and more drastic cuts be implemented. 2) The additional bus should not be run on an interim basis, but only if a plan is already in place for utilizing the additional bus. In both scenarios, the subcommittee agreed that if a satisfactory plan could not be developed to make use of the additional bus, that the following additional service cuts be made to Line 63, in the following order, only as necessary to provide additional run time: Transportation Commission Page 4 of 19 | TransportationCommission/2007-10-24.pdf |