Foothill Transit

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Foothill Transit
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Foothill Transit bus in Los Angeles
ParentFoothill Transit Agency
Founded1988
Headquarters100 South Vincent Ave
West Covina, California
Service area San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys
Service type Transit bus
Routes37 [1]
Fleet359 buses [1]
Daily ridership30,400 (weekdays, Q3 2024) [2]
Annual ridership7,859,200 (2023) [3]
Fuel type CNG, battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell
Operator Transdev (Irwindale Yard) [4]
Keolis (Pomona Yard) [5]
Chief executiveDoran J. Barnes
Website foothilltransit.org

Foothill Transit is a public transit agency that is government funded by 22 member cities in the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys. It operates a fixed-route bus public transit service in the San Gabriel Valley region of eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, as well as a rapid bus route to and from downtown Los Angeles from the El Monte Busway, and a few of its local routes reach the far northern and western edge cities of neighboring Orange and San Bernardino counties, respectively. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 7,859,200, or about 30,400 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.

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Overview

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Foothill Transit operates out of two yards: one in Pomona (opened in 1997), and the other in Arcadia (opened in 2002); the administrative offices moved to West Covina in 2007. [6] The Foothill Transit joint powers authority membership consists of elected representatives from 22 member cities in the San Gabriel Valley and Pomona Valley and three members appointed from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. [7] These representatives are divided into five geographical clusters, which each elect a representative annually to serve on a five-member executive board. [8]

Foothill Transit Organization [9]
Cluster 1Cluster 2Cluster 3Cluster 4Cluster 5
Claremont Azusa Arcadia El Monte LA County Supervisors
La Verne Baldwin Park Bradbury Diamond Bar
Pomona Covina Duarte Industry
San Dimas Glendora Monrovia La Puente
Walnut Irwindale Pasadena South El Monte
  West Covina Temple City  

Funding

Foothill Transit is mainly funded by local sales tax revenue, with 75% coming from Los Angeles County Propositions A and C, California State Transportation Development Act, and the State Transit Assistance Fund. The remaining 25% comes from farebox revenue. [1]

History

Los Angeles County Supervisor Pete Schabarum is credited with the formation of the transit agency. Schabarum, annoyed by what he saw as disproportionate cutbacks of bus service by the Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD) in the San Gabriel Valley, [10] wanted to secede from the larger agency and form a separate transit agency as early as 1986. [11] Compared to routes serving more densely-populated areas, routes in the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys required greater subsidies to serve fewer riders on longer freeway alignments in eastern Los Angeles County. [12]

Foothill was initially founded by 20 member cities; [11] Pasadena voted to join in 1998. [13] In 1987, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (LACTC) approved Foothill to take over fourteen routes which serviced the San Gabriel Valley that were currently operated by SCRTD. [6] Although service was planned to start on July 1, 1988, [14] the Foothill Transit Zone had been prevented from starting service in July by an injunction arising from a lawsuit filed by the drivers and mechanics unions (United Transportation and Amalgamated Transit Unions) of SCRTD against LACTC. [12] Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eli Chernow ruled that LACTC could not unilaterally transfer the lines without the consent of the SCRTD board of directors. The injunction was upheld on appeal. [15]

LACTC had begun withholding $9 million per month from SCRTD in April 1988 on the basis that SCRTD had not followed salary guidelines set by LACTC; SCRTD replied that LACTC, under the leadership of its chairman (Schabarum), was holding the funds hostage to pressure SCRTD to release the lines to Foothill Transit. [11] SCRTD consented to Foothill Transit taking over the bus lines in December 1988 in return for the restoration of funding. [16] Those first two lines operated by Foothill Transit were 495 and 498. [6]

The trial for the lawsuit against Foothill Transit started in May 1989, [10] was resolved in Foothill's favor by July, [16] and the other twelve lines previously operated by SCRTD were transitioned to Foothill Transit between 1989 and 1992. [6] [17] For a short period in 1992, the last two routes to transition (486 and 488) were operated by both Foothill Transit and SCRTD during continued legal disputes. [12] The drivers and mechanics unions disputed the transfer of 486 and 488 since SCRTD had made the decision without negotiating with the union; an arbitrator held up the unions' argument, which led to duplicated service on those lines, as "Foothill Transit [had] the legal right to operate buses on the contested routes, but the [SCRTD had] the legal obligation to do so", and the union planned to use that precedent to roll back service to SCRTD on all fourteen lines. [12] However, Foothill Transit again prevailed in a February 1993 court ruling. [18]

Contract labor

Schabarum, who hated the influence of trade unions, chose to use contractors to operate and manage the service. [19] All of the operations and maintenance work for Foothill Transit are contracted out. As of 2017, bus service is operated by Keolis at Pomona and Transdev at Arcadia/Irwindale.

Embree Bus Lines was the initial contractor that operated the first two lines for Foothill starting in December 1988. [16] The hourly operating cost under Foothill Transit was reduced by up to half compared to service under SCRTD, and ridership grew, but the contract operator drivers generally earned less in both wages and fringe benefits, and had less influence over working conditions. In addition, Foothill Transit was not required to provide typical rider services such as schedules, bus stops, transit police, or telephone information. [12] During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Foothill Transit terminated service at El Monte rather than continue on to downtown Los Angeles. [12] Over the first five years, Foothill Transit consistently saved money compared to SCRTD's historical costs. [18] In 1994, Foothill reported their hourly cost of operations was $55, compared to $93 for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), with a farebox recovery ratio of 48% (compared to 32% for Metro) at a lower fare of $0.85 (compared to $1.10 for Metro, which was scheduled to increase to $1.35 later that year). In addition, Foothill reported an accident rate of 0.3 per 100,000 mi (160,000 km) traveled, compared to Metro's rate of 3.3 per 100,000 mi (160,000 km), although Metro's accident rate was skewed by older buses and more dense traffic in its operating area. [19]

Foothill executives made the service essentially strike-proof by insisting that two different companies operate the two bus yards, even if it would cost more in the short term. By 1998, Foothill's contractors were Laidlaw and Ryder/ATE. [20] However, due to bus industry consolidation, First Transit operated both yards from 2001 to mid-2007. Currently, both Foothill Transit yards are represented by unions (Arcadia by the Amalgamated Transit Union and Pomona by the Teamsters Union), but past strikes at the agency have been less than successful due to the ability of one yard to operate the other yard's service. [21] [22] In addition, wages are less at Foothill than at other transit operators in the region. [12]

The contract operator drivers at Foothill were also represented by the Teamsters, but a 1994 Los Angeles Times article reported they earned an average of $11 per hour, compared to the average $18.45 per hour earned by Metro drivers. [19] A representative of the union representing Metro's drivers, the United Transportation Union, accused Foothill of not paying its drivers a living wage; the president of the company that was then contracted to manage Foothill, William P. Forsythe, stated the US$20,000(equivalent to $41,000 in 2023) typical annual pay of a Foothill driver "isn't bad for a service industry job" and admitted it wasn't fair "compared to MTA, but they've been overpaying for years." [19] In January 1995, the Los Angeles Times reported the majority of the 150 drivers for Laidlaw made $8.50 per hour; those drivers, represented by the Teamsters, rejected a proposed contract that offered no wage increases. [23]

Laidlaw, which was responsible for approximately half of Foothill's fleet, operated out of the Upland Yard. The first strike against Foothill Transit started when Laidlaw drivers walked off in February 1996, asking for an immediate $1/hour raise and full medical coverage. Teamsters Local 848 officials stated that drivers could not afford private health insurance, and had to rely on county services instead. Foothill's other contractor was not affected and continued normal operations during the strike. [21] The strike ended after thirteen days, when drivers accepted a 3% pay raise with no health coverage on a one-year contract under the threat they would be fired and replaced if they did not return to work. [24] Shortly after the expiration of the contract, Laidlaw drivers went on strike again in June 1997, but that strike was settled within hours, as most drivers were no longer represented by the union. [22] The reported average wages in 1998 was $9.30 per hour for Ryder/ATE drivers (represented by the Teamsters), and $9.06 per hour for Laidlaw drivers (who had previously voted to become an open shop). [20]

Forsythe's company later merged with what became Veolia. Effective July 1, 2013, due to expiration of the existing management services contract and continuing conflicts of interest between the executive director, staff, and board, Foothill Transit transitioned to in house management. Executive Director Doran Barnes became the first full-time Foothill employee, and planning, procurement, and other administrative functions became Foothill functions as well. [7] Transdev (formerly Veolia) staff continues to operate the transit stores and maintain bus shelters. [25]

The last two lines operated by Metro (SCRTD's successor) in the eastern San Gabriel Valley were turned over to Foothill in 2016. [26]

In 2017, Foothill Transit hired two new contractors, Keolis and Transdev, both of which are French transportation companies, to manage both of their bus storage yards. Keolis took over First Transit's role in managing the Pomona Yard [5] and Transdev took over First Transit's, and previously MV Transportation's, role in managing the Irwindale Yard. [4]

Environmental initiatives

In 2002, Foothill Transit began purchasing Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered buses. [6] In 2010, Foothill Transit was the first transit system to operate an all-electric battery-powered bus from Proterra. [6] By 2013, when the last diesel-powered 2000–2001 Gillig Advantage buses were retired, [7] Foothill Transit became around a 90 percent CNG fleet. 10 percent of the fleet is electric.

Foothill Transit's main goal is to be fully electric by 2030. [27] On January 25, 2021, Foothill Transit received its first two all-electric double-decker buses, which were made by Alexander Dennis in the United Kingdom. [28]

Fleet Reliability Problems

During its transition to an all Electric Fleet, Foothill Transit suffered a thirty-four percent electric fleet failure rate. The transit system blamed its fleet vendor for the lack of spare parts. Other units stalled while in revenue service and a bus caught on fire in early 2020. [29] In Fiscal Year 2020, sixty-seven percent of its electric fleet failed to properly operate. Most of the buses had to wait three hundred days for replacement parts. [30]

In 2021, Foothill Transit voted to return its fleet of Electric Buses to the FTA. Foothill Transit took a $5,000,000 charge off, due to its reduced life cycle. [31] [32]

Fuel Cell Fleet

In 2021, Foothill transit ordered 13 Fuel Cell buses from New flyer to replace its Electric buses [33] [34] The Fuel Cell Buses began revenue service in December 2022 [35]

Routes

Local routes

Commuter Express routes

Commuter Express services operate weekdays only in the peak direction, excluding the Silver Streak.

Other services

Foothill Transit provides shuttle service for special events at the Rose Bowl, including UCLA Football home games and the annual Rose Bowl Game. [37]

RouteTerminalsviaNotes
686

Rose Bowl Shuttle

Pasadena

Rose Bowl Stadium

Pasadena
Pasadena Av & Holly St		Fair Oaks Av
  • Pasadena Av & Holly St stop is within walking distance of Memorial Park station
  • Paid parking available near Pasadena Av & Holly St stop

School Tripper routes

Services operate weekdays only.

RouteTerminalsvia
853 Diamond Bar

Gateway Center Dr & Golden Springs D

Pomona

Diamond Ranch High School

Golden Springs Dr

Fares and Passes

Fare typeOne-wayPasses
1-day10-trip31-dayEZ Transit
Adult Local + Silver Streak$1.75$6$14$60$110
Student Local + Silver Streak$1$4$8$40N/A
ChildrenFreeFreeFreeFreeFree
Senior/Persons with Disabilities/Medicare Local$0.75$3$6$30$42
AccessFreeFreeFreeFreeFree
Commuter Express$5.50-$44$180$220

Transfers

Free 2-Hour Foothill Transit to Foothill Transit local transfers. (Lines 490, 493, 495, 498, 499, and 699), you’ll have to pay the full fare.

Fare
Transfers$0.50
Discount Transfers$0.25
Transfers to other partner agenciesVaries

Bus fleet

As of 2024, the Foothill Transit fleet consists of a mixed fleet of NABI, New Flyer, ENC, Proterra and Alexander Dennis buses. These include the Xcelsior, NABI BRT, Enviro500, ElDorado National Axess, and Proterra Catalyst buses. Foothill Transit uses various propulsion systems to power their buses, which are CNG, Hydrogen, [38] [39] and Electric. [40] Foothill Transit uses articulated New Flyer XN60 buses as well as two Double Decker Alexander Dennis Enviro500EVs for use on the Silver Streak (bus) line. [41] The transit agency has an additional twelve Alexander Dennis Enviro500EVs on order. [42]

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