Oakland Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

Oakland takes a step closer towards World-Class Transit Service!

In April 2010, Oakland's City Council voted unanimously in support of  BRT. The next step is moving forward with a Final Environmental Impact Statement.  Over a dozen Oakland residents spoke in favor of the project.  Most of the councilmembers on the committee voiced their enthusiasm for the project to be studied with dedicated lanes and stations.

TransForm would like to thank the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Urban Habitat, The Sierra Club (Northern Alameda County Chapter), UNITE-HERE Local 2850, The Alameda County Building Trades Council, the East Bay Asian Youth Center, The East Bay Bicycle Coalition, Walk-Oakland / Bike Oakland (WOBO), Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), and the Oakland Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee for joining us in supporting BRT and helping to win this important victory!

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) could dramatically improve bus service for the 20,000 current daily riders on AC Transit’s 1/1R routes, giving better access to 1/3 of all the housing and 1/2 of all the jobs in Oakland.  BRT (with dedicated lanes, state-of-the-art buses, and other key features) is an affordable way to make bus service much faster and more reliable.

This May,  we will need your support when the Oakland City Council votes one last time to adopt the final project as proposed by AC Transit. Until then, TransForm will continue to do outreach to the community, helping AC Transit and the City of Oakland to identify solutions to the impacts anticipated on parking, traffic, and bus stop consolidation. We're confident we will find a way to make transit faster, more reliable, and more frequent, while helping the communities along the corridor to become safer for bicyclsts, pedestrians, transit riders, and car drivers alike.

Resources

To see a short, 3 minute video-simulation of how this would look in Oakland, go to our BRT page.

Learn more about the proposal for BRT in Oakland studied in a Final Environmental Impact Report.

If you would like to learn more about TransForm's role in advocating for Bus Rapid Transit in the East Bay, contact Joel Ramos.

You can make TransForm an even stronger advocate in 2011 by donating now.