ANTIOCH, CA – With East County’s new BART station opening, Eastern Contra Costa Transit Authority (Tri Delta Transit) has made several changes to bus routes. These changes took effect Saturday, May 26, 2018.
Changes include:
- Addition of new routes
- Modifications to existing routes
- Route eliminations
- New departure times and time point locations
“The changes being implemented on May 26 are more extensive than past schedule changes,” said Mike Furnary, Director of Marketing and Customer Service. “This is more of a ‘system change’ than a schedule change, incorporating significantly modified routes as well as new route additions, route eliminations, and new departure times.” Starting back in 2016, Tri Delta Transit held a series of public meetings to get community input on the best way to proceed with changes incorporating the new BART stations. “It is from these meetings that many of the upcoming changes were decided.”
The revised system will have a total of 20 bus routes compared to the current 18. Service to some locations will no longer be available on select routes resulting from reconfigurations necessary to serve Antioch and Pittsburg Center BART. However, these locations will continue to be served by other routes.
“One of the most notable service changes will be to Express Route 300 serving Pittsburg/Bay Point BART,” said Furnary. “This route, which will continue to start in Brentwood, will terminate at the new Antioch BART station.”
Similar changes will be implemented on several other routes including Route 380, 383, 387, 390, 391, and 393. Due to lack of ridership, Route 386 serving Discovery Bay will be eliminated.
Parking for bus patrons at the new Antioch and Pittsburg Center BART stations will no longer be available. “BART has informed us that parking at these stations is permitted by round-trip BART passengers only.” Daily parking fees will be implemented and enforced as of May 26, 2018.
All Tri Delta Transit customers are encouraged to preview the new system map as well as individual route maps and schedules online at www.TriDeltaTransit.com. “We have been alerting our customers and have had system-change previews on our web site since January 2018 so they can adequately prepare for the upcoming changes,” said Furnary. Printed schedules will be available on all buses by May 11.
In addition to alerts provided online, notice of system changes has been communicated to staff of schools affected by route changes, and alerts have been placed on every bus and at several bus stops. Information is also posted on the agency’s mobile app, on multiple social media channels, and several traditional media channels including television and newspaper.
A preview of the revised schedule is currently available online at www.TriDeltaTransit.com.
Tri Delta Transit provides over 3,000,000 trips each year to a population of over 250,000 residents in the 225 square miles of Eastern Contra Costa County. They currently operate 14 local bus routes Monday – Friday, 4 local bus routes on weekends, door-to-door bus service for senior citizens and people with disabilities, and shuttle services to community events.
For additional information about Tri Delta Transit, please visit www.trideltatransit.com.
4 comments
Yes, let’s have a 6 hour commute to SF and no return late night bus service for evening workers and no place to safely park. Will only use full service BART which already is a bad joke on taxpayers anyway. Antioch e-BART so lame unless you can walk to the most dangerous area in town to get a train or drive a smart car so you can fit in those mini parking spots. Let the robberies commence.
VP obviously doesn’t commute or hasn’t taken eBART. Too bad, it actually is a nice addition and the modern cars are actually NICER than the “full service BART”. I will be taking it regularly to SF and downtown WC.
Not worried about the non existent “robberies” either.
Been riding BART daily since 1975 and have paid taxes for full service BART since 1973. I will continue to go to real BART. I care about service. Give e-BART a week or two until transients have discovered it. I have been the victim of an attempted robbery at Concord by a male who followed me off the train at Concord. I have had my vehicle broken into. Had another passenger weirdo attempt to follow me home from North Concord on a motorcycle and had to drive to CHP in Martinez. You are misinformed if you think crime is non-existent on BART. Just the level of daily transient destruction is depressing. Happy BARTing.
Lol!
“attempted” Robbery? Someone followed you? Nobody “attempts” a robbery. You either got robbed or you didn’t. Just because they got off a train with you and are not in your suburban comfort zone doesn’t mean they are going to rob you. You folks that grew up in a suburb of 25k people are out of touch with what it means to live in a city of 125k people and the big city realities that come into play such as Homeless crime etc… You had your vehicle broken into? Do you think that is exclusive to a BART parking lot and won’t happen in front of a house or out shopping?. BART really is no better or worse than any other large city transit service. I grew up in a big city where people actually do rob you. I haven’t had any problems whatsoever taking BART DAILY for the last 20 years. Are there idiots on there? Sure. Taken the transit in Chicago lately? Maybe you need to get around more. I’ve taken mass transit in NY, Chicago, London, Paris, Berlin and many more. eBart reminds me of some of the trains I took in Europe. Anyways, enjoy your bitterness and have fun sitting in traffic on Highway 4
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