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Using NextBus™ Real-Time Boarding the Bus Bringing Your Bicycle Bus Arrival Bus stops are marked with the AC All AC Transit buses have a rack on NextBus is AC Transit’s real-time bus Transit logo and display the bus the front for two bikes. You may load arrival lines that stop there. Most bus lines a bicycle at any time of day, with no predictor. You have stops every few blocks. Make extra fare or permit. Cyclists must Welcome can use it on sure you are on the correct side of load and unload their own bikes. to EasyPass! the Web, cell the street for your direction of travel. phones, or at Wait for the bus as close as possible Your Peralta Colleges EasyPass Class Pass Destinations Map NextBus bus to the bus stop pole to make it easier – Laney College, gives you access On the back of this guide, you will stop displays for the bus operator to see you. You to the , San Francisco, and the find a handy map of restaurants, (at certain don’t have to signal the bus, but Peninsula. Use this handy pocket guide shopping districts, selected BART to learn how to get around using AC stops) to find doing so will help ensure that the stations, and entertainment options Transit. Our buses run 24 hours a out when the operator doesn’t miss you by that you can get to by using your day in more than two dozen cities next bus is coming. Visit mistake. When the bus arrives, EasyPass on bus lines that travel and unincorporated areas, and we www.actransit.org/nextbus to find check the line number or letter to near the Peralta College campuses. cross the Bay, San Mateo, and out how to use NextBus. make sure it’s the bus you want. Dumbarton bridges. AC Transit can get you nearly anywhere a car can, without the Laney Printed Maps & Schedules Stopping the Bus parking hassles or expense! Hop on College We publish two system maps that Request your stop by pulling the board any line and begin a new together cover the AC Transit service cord, pressing the button on the adventure. Be sure to double check area: San Pablo to Oakland, and pole, or pressing the button above the schedule before you ride to San Leandro to Fremont. We also your head (on the green, commuter- ensure the line is running when you Planning Your AC Transit Trip publish individual pocket schedules style buses). The “Stop Requested” want. There are four ways to plan your AC with a route map for each bus line. sign will light. If you are not sure Transit trip: when your stop will be coming up, ask the operator to let you know. • Use online trip-planning tools at Using Pocket Schedules www.actransit.org, Most pocket schedules list several of www.511.org, or on Google the bus stops along the route, with Accessibility For more information, visit: Transit at the times the bus is expected to All AC Transit buses have built-in www.actransit.org www.google.com/transit. arrive at each stop. These stops are features—passenger lifts, ramps, www.actransit.org/easypass • View maps and schedules on our called “time points.” There are handrails, and kneelers—that make www.peralta.edu/easypass Web site at www.actransit.org. usually additional bus stops between it easier for seniors and persons with the time points. Just find the time disabilities to ride. Priority seating is • Pick up our printed maps and point closest to where you are clearly marked on every bus with schedules from locations around starting your AC Transit trip and signs above or near the seats. If you the Peralta campuses. read down the column under the are a senior or a person with a • Call the AC Transit Information time point in order to find the time disability, you may ask the operator

Center at 511 (and say, “AC you need to be at the bus stop. to remind non-disabled passengers AC Transit Marketing & Community Relations Transit,” then say, “Information”). to vacate a seat for you. July 2010 0113-10 Line 11 Line 88: • Bay Fair BART • San Leandro BART Places to Go with Your • Dimond Shopping (Farmer • BART • Fruitvale BART Joe’s Marketplace, La • 12th Street BART Farine Bakery) • Laney College (walk 3 – 4 Peralta Colleges EasyPass: • East Bay Fencers Gym • Highland Hospital blocks from 12th and Oak) • Berkeley Farmer’s Market • 12th Street BART • Lake Merritt BART (at MLK Jr. Way and Laney College • 12th Street BART Derby) • 19th Street BART • Line 840: • Paramount Theatre • Downtown Berkeley BART • Eastmont Transit Center • Whole Foods Market, • Berkeley YMCA • 35th and Foothill Blvd. Oakland • Laney College (walk 3 – 4 • Municipal Rose Garden Lines 1/1R: blocks from 12th and Oak) • 12th Street BART • Bay Fair Mall Line 26: • Oakland International • Lake Merritt BART Airport (transfer to Line 73 at International and 73rd • 12th Street BART To go to Berkeley Avenue) City College: • West Oakland BART • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping From Lines 11, 26, or 88, • East Bay Bridge Center (Powderface Coffee and (Office Depot, Best Buy) Beignets, Acapulco transfer to Line 1/1R at 12th Street, Downtown • MacArthur BART Records – Latin music) Oakland (or walk 3 – 4 • Fruitvale BART blocks to 12th and Oak Line 40: • Lake Merritt BART to catch Line 1/1R) • 12th Street BART • Eastmont Transit Center To go to College of • 19th Street BART • Dimond Shopping (Farmer Alameda: • Oakland Ice Center Rink Joe’s Marketplace, La From Lines 11, 26, or Farine Bakery) • Fox Theatre 88, transfer to Lines 31 • Lake Merritt • Paramount Theatre or 51A at 12th Street, • Laney College (walk 3 – 4 • Great Western Power Co. blocks from 12th and Oak) (indoor rock climbing) To go to Merritt • Oakland Museum of • MacArthur BART College: • Temescal Shopping • 12th Street BART (Genova Delicatessen, Walk 3 – 4 blocks to 11th and Madison and • Chinatown Pizzaiolo) take Line 1/1R or 40; • Whole Foods Market, Berkeley transfer to Line 54 at Line 62: 35th Ave. • • Fruitvale BART Shopping (Moe’s Books, • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping Amoeba Music) (Powderface Coffee and • Downtown Berkeley BART Check before you ride – Beignets, Acapulco line schedules vary with Records – Latin music) direction and time. • Highland Hospital Line 801: • Lake Merritt BART • Fremont BART • China Town • Union City BART Laney College • West Oakland BART • South Hayward BART AC Transit Marketing • July 2010 • Hayward BART