Estuary Crossing Shuttle

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Estuary Crossing Shuttle was a free bus service in Alameda County, California linking BART with the West End neighborhood of the City of Alameda. [1] Service ended on June 30, 2017. [2]

Service

The commute hour service connected Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland with the island city of Alameda across the Webster and Posey Tubes, vehicle only tunnels separating the cities under a channel known as the Oakland-Alameda Estuary. [3] The nineteen-seater buses carried up to twenty-four passengers. [4] The coaches carried up to thirteen bicycles, significantly higher than the typical of two passengers per bicycle. The service was funded by San Francisco Bay Air Quality Management District grant money. [5] The system began operations on August 15, 2011, with a one-year $236,000 renewable grant. The ECS line also connected the Peralta Community College District campuses of Laney and College of Alameda including the latter's satellite campus on the island's Marina Village. [6]

References

  1. ↑ New free shuttle service links Lake Merritt BART Station to Alameda
  2. ↑ "Estuary Crossing Shuttle". City of Alameda.
  3. ↑ "Free estuary crossing shuttle". Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
  4. ↑ "Estuary Crossing Shuttle" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
  5. ↑ West End Estuary Crossing Shuttle Coming in August, Nancy Lopez, Alameda Patch
  6. ↑ "Monday, Aug. 15 - New, free Estuary Crossing Shuttle starts service". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
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