People Mover (Anchorage)

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People Mover
People Mover route 41 at 6th Ave and C St.jpg
People Mover bus in downtown Anchorage
FoundedJuly 1, 1974
Headquarters3600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99507 (operations),
700 West Sixth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501 (customer service)
Locale Anchorage, Alaska
Service area Anchorage
Service type bus service
Routes15
Hubs Dimond Center, Downtown, Eagle River, Muldoon, Providence Hospital
Fuel type Diesel, Electric
OperatorMunicipality of Anchorage
Website www.peoplemover.org

The People Mover is the public transportation agency that serves metropolitan Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It is owned and operated by the Municipality of Anchorage, with service primarily within city limits as well as Eagle River.

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Service

The People Mover bus system includes regular all-day service routes on many of the city's major streets as well as one route with rush hour-only service (the #92 which runs nonstop from Downtown to Eagle River). Many routes terminate at the Downtown Transit Center, located at the southeast corner of 6th Avenue and H Street in Downtown Anchorage.

People Mover service for most routes within Anchorage begins at 6 or 7 am and ends at 9 or 10 pm, with some of the major routes running until 11 pm on weekdays (and the Route 40 to the airport and Spenard running until almost 2am on weekdays). On Saturdays, most of the all-day routes begin service at 8 am, and end at 7pm. On Sundays, routes end approximately 1 hour earlier.

In 2016, the City of Anchorage undertook a study to redesign the service with the aim of providing more frequent service without increasing its public transit budget. This resulted in a proposed plan by late November 2016 for more streamlined routes, with less off-tracking than previously, combined with 15-minute frequencies in the densest parts of the city; service to outlying communities would be curtailed. It was expected that a new schedule could be introduced as early as August 2017, but it actually ended up being implemented on October 23, 2017. [1] The previous system was designed in 2002, and most routes came once per hour.

Current Routes

As of May 13th, 2024: [2]

Core Routes (every 15 minutes during peak hours)

Other Routes (every 30 minutes during peak hours)

Neighborhood Routes (every 30 minutes during peak hours)

Commuter Routes

Transit fleet

Active Fleet

Fleet Number(s)Model YearManufacturerModelEngineTransmission
60251-602682008 New Flyer D40LF Cummins ISL Allison B400R
60269-602832010 D40LFR Cummins ISL9
60284-602912011
60292-603022013
60303-603132022 XD40 Cummins L9Voith D864.6
60314-603282024Voith D867.8 NXT
60329-603392025

References

  1. ↑ Devin Kelly, "Anchorage’s People Mover bus system considers major changes to the way routes are designed," Anchorage Daily News, November 26, 2016. Accessed December 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "2024-0513 Schedule Brochure" (PDF). muni.org. May 13, 2024. Retrieved May 24, 2024.
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