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Public Transit Policy, Analysis, Advocacy and Education
Newsletter of the Southern California Transit Advocates
Vol 11, No. 5, May 2003

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Omnitrans Short Range Transit PlanSO.CA.TA
These changes are designed to make Omnitrans operate more efficiently within limited funding. Most of these changes would happen in January 2004, unless otherwise noted.

Route 1: Branch 1A will be replaced by Route 5. Route 1 will have 15-minute service between Arrowhead Medical Center in Colton and the 4th Street Transit Mall. It will continue half-hourly from there to Sterling and Lynwood, following a one-way loop via Highland Sterling, Lynwood and Golden.

Route 4: Route 4 on the west end will pick up a portion of Route 6. It will continue via Medical Center Dr.,9th St. (not 16th), and south on Mt. Vernon.

Route 5: Southern portion of route, past Pacific and Del Rosa, is shifted to cover Route 1A. The route portion serving 3rd St. between SB International Airport and 4th Street Transit Mall will be picked up by Route 8.

Route 8: The route will operate via Arrowhead,3rd, Del Rosa (serving SB International Airport), C St., Tippecanoe, Victoria, Trolley, Lugonia, Alabama, State-Central-Redlands, Orange, San Bernardino, University and Lugonia.

Route 10: The new Route 10 will include the former Route 12 and links Fontana Metrolink with Redlands Mall. The portion of former Route 12 will be rerouted to serve East Highland and Citrus Plaza in Redlands.

Route 11: Route 11 was combined with Route 6. Route 11's loop in Muscoy will be canceled.

Route 14: Route 3 will be combined with Route 14. The combined route will operate its current 15-minute frequency between Fontana Metrolink and Boulder and Baseline in San Bernardino. It will continue west as Route 4 to the 4th St. Transit Mall with its current 15-minute frequency.

Route 15: Route 15 will now continue straight on Merrill and Mill. It will operate hourly on weekdays and weekends.

Route 22: Splits in two branches after Highland and Riverside. 15-minute service will be provided on the trunk, and 30-minute service on the two branches.

New Route 28 will serve Slover, south of Fontana, between South Fontana TC and Mulberry. It will operate hourly on weekdays only.

Route 29: Shortened and re-routed to serve communities south of Fontana via Valley, Cedar, Slover, Locust, 11th, Cedar, Santa Ana, Spruce and Slover back to Cedar.

Route 30 and 31 will be replaced by the Redlands Trolley, effective September.

Route 60: re-routed to serve Ontario Airport with Chaffey College, the new Rancho Cucamonga Town Center, Rancho Cucamonga Metrolink, and Ontario Mills. It will operate every hour weekdays and weekends. The route is as follows: start at Holt and D (Ontario Airport and Convention Center), Vineyard-Carnelian, 19th, Haven (Chaffey College), then continues via Summit, Milliken, Victoria Park (Rancho Cucamonga Town Center), Day Creek, Foothill, Milliken serving Rancho Cucamonga TC and Ontario Mills.

Route 61 will no longer enter Ontario Mills. It will stop outside on Milliken and/or 4th.

Route 62 was flipped with Route 63 at its southern end. Route 62 will now continue on Euclid to Chino Av., and head east to Chino Transcenter. The northern portion of the route will be canceled. Instead, Route 62 will pick up an abandoned portion of Route 70 between Montclair Transcenter and Ontario Transcenter.

Route 63 will no longer serve Mountain between Walnut and Chino. Coming south on Mountain will turn west on Walnut, and south on Central to the new Chino Transcenter.

New Route 64 will serve the northwestern communities of Upland and Rancho Cucamonga linking Chaffey College will Montclair Metrolink via Wilson, Carnelian, 19th, Euclid, 21st, Mountain, and 7th.

Route 65 will be every half-hour between Montclair Transcenter and Chino Hills. It will have two branches though. 65A will follow its current alignment with a loop in the south end along Chino Hills Pkwy, Peyton, Valle Vista, and Ramona. 65B will continue south on Central, east on Edison, and south on Pipeline to Chino Hills.

Route 67: Starting at Ontario Transcenter, Route 67 will operate hourly along Euclid, Baseline, and Sierra down to Fontana TC and Metrolink Station. It will no longer serve Chaffey College and Arrow Route.

Route 68 was extended south to Chino TC through Ramona, Riverside, and Central.

Route 70 was canceled. The western part of the route between Montclair and Ontario was picked up by Route 62. The eastern end between Ontario Mills and Rancho Cucamonga Civic Center was picked up by Route 71. The central portion of the route between Ontario Transcenter and Ontario Mills will be replaced by an on demand "Flex Route".

Route 71 was shortened west of Ontario Mills and re-routed south of Fontana to pick up a portion of former Route 29. It will now serve Jurupa east of Cherry and north on Sierra to Fontana TC; service on Slover is dropped and picked up by new Route 28.

Route 72 will be canceled.

Route 90 and Route 100 are combined as the new Route 90. Route 90 will operate along I-10 and I-215 between Montclair and Riverside, but with added stops at San Bernardino Metrolink, Riverside Metrolink, and Cooley Ranch. This change is scheduled for September 2003.  


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