EVALUATION OF EXPRESS BUSWAY ON SAN BERNARDINO FREEWAY - THIRD YEAR REPORT

This is the final report completing the evaluation of the San Bernardino Freeway Express Busway in the operational mode of exclusive use by buses. The San Bernardino Freeway Express Busway is an 11-mile, double-lane, exclusive roadway for buses connecting downtown Los Angeles to the City of El Monte. The busway lanes, which were built in the median strip of land, at some points, alongside the freeway, are physically separated by concrete and flexible barriers from those lanes which serve automobile traffic, making it a bus rapid transit system. This $57 million system is the most complete facility of its kind in the country, having off-line stations, park-ride facilities, double (bi-directional) bus lanes, feeder bus lines, and a downtown reserved (contraflow) lane. The Busway offers a service that is competitive with automobile commuting on the semi-congested freeway. The running time on the 11.2 mile busway, including two intermediate station stops, is 14 minutes. The project is part of the SCAG High Occupancy Vehicle Program consisting of transportation measures for improving air quality and energy conservation, and includes preferential treatment for high occupancy vehicles on freeways and major arterials, carpool action programs and transit development strategies.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by Crain and Associates, Menlo Park, Calif.
• Corporate Authors:

  Southern California Association of Governments

  1111 West Sixth Street
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90017

  Crain and Associates

  120 Santo Margarita Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1976-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 187 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Automobiles; Buses; Evaluation; Expressways; Freeways; Level of service; Parking facilities; Public opinion; Railroad stations; Traffic engineering
• Uncontrolled Terms: Services
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00174674
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTACA-09-0022
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 14 2002 12:00AM