(ot) Route Numbering Rationalization
cable_car_guy
Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:25 AM
There have been recent posts about rationalizing route numbers. I
can describe the scheme that some highly paid consultants came up
with for SamTrans (San Mateo County Transit), a transit agency that
operates south of San Francisco.
On 15-Aug-1999 SamTrans changed the designation for every single
route on the system, and most of the schedules at the same time. It
was a mess.
SamTrans route number designations:
xX "Green" Express route
1- 99 "Orange" Community route
100-199 "Blue" BART connection
200-299 "Red" Caltrain connection
300-399 "Red and Blue" BART and Caltrain connection
All schedules and signs at bus stops use the colors listed above.
The schedules on their website do not.
The community route numbers are further broken down into ranges of
tens by the cities they serve. For instance, routes 14-17 serve the
Coastside area, where I live. Routes 34-36 serve Brisbane and South
San Francisco.
Numbers in the 190s, 290s, and 390s designate intercity routes. Most
run significant miles on El Camino Real, the primary non-freeway
north-south road on the San Francisco Peninsula.
After a month or two of anarchy, things settled down and the system
seems to work pretty well, although I'll bet most of the riders
aren't aware of it. The consultants made a nice dollar out of it.
SamTrans website:
http://www.samtrans.org/
Regards,
Joe Thompson ;0)
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can describe the scheme that some highly paid consultants came up
with for SamTrans (San Mateo County Transit), a transit agency that
operates south of San Francisco.
On 15-Aug-1999 SamTrans changed the designation for every single
route on the system, and most of the schedules at the same time. It
was a mess.
SamTrans route number designations:
xX "Green" Express route
1- 99 "Orange" Community route
100-199 "Blue" BART connection
200-299 "Red" Caltrain connection
300-399 "Red and Blue" BART and Caltrain connection
All schedules and signs at bus stops use the colors listed above.
The schedules on their website do not.
The community route numbers are further broken down into ranges of
tens by the cities they serve. For instance, routes 14-17 serve the
Coastside area, where I live. Routes 34-36 serve Brisbane and South
San Francisco.
Numbers in the 190s, 290s, and 390s designate intercity routes. Most
run significant miles on El Camino Real, the primary non-freeway
north-south road on the San Francisco Peninsula.
After a month or two of anarchy, things settled down and the system
seems to work pretty well, although I'll bet most of the riders
aren't aware of it. The consultants made a nice dollar out of it.
SamTrans website:
http://www.samtrans.org/
Regards,
Joe Thompson ;0)
The Cable Car Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/cablecar.html
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats
http://home.mindspring.com/~joethompson1/ferry.html
Park Trains
http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/html/ptrain.html
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