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 the sure you are on the correct side of load and unload their own bikes. to EasyPass! 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 – College of Alameda , gives you On the back of this guide, you will stop displays (at for the bus operator to see you. You access to the East Bay, San Francisco, certain stops) to find a handy map of restaurants, and the Peninsula. Use this handy don’t have to signal the bus, but find out when shopping districts, selected BART pocket guide to learn how to get doing so will help ensure that the stations, and entertainment options around using AC Transit. Our buses the next bus is operator doesn’t miss you by that you can get to by using your run 24 hours a day in more than two coming. Visit mistake. When the bus arrives, EasyPass on bus lines that travel dozen cities and unincorporated www.actransit.org/nextbus to find check the line number or letter to near the Peralta College campuses. areas, and we cross the Bay, San out how to use NextBus. make sure it’s the bus you want. Mateo, and Dumbarton bridges. AC Transit can get you nearly anywhere a car can, without the College of Printed Maps & Schedules Stopping the Bus parking hassles or expense! Hop on Alameda 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 publish individual pocket schedules style buses). The “Stop Requested” want. Planning Your AC Transit Trip with a route map for each bus line. sign will light. If you are not sure There are four ways to plan your AC when your stop will be coming up, Transit trip: Using Pocket Schedules ask the operator to let you know. • Use online trip-planning tools at Most pocket schedules list several of www.actransit.org, the bus stops along the route, with Accessibility www.511.org, or on Google the times the bus is expected to All AC Transit buses have built-in For more information, visit: Transit at arrive at each stop. These stops are features—passenger lifts, ramps, www.actransit.org www.google.com/transit. called “time points.” There are handrails, and kneelers—that make www.actransit.org/easypass • View maps and schedules on our usually additional bus stops between it easier for seniors and persons with www.peralta.edu/easypass Web site at www.actransit.org. 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 you need to be at the bus stop. to remind non-disabled passengers Center at 511 (and say, “AC AC Transit Marketing & Community Relations Transit,” then say, “Information”). to vacate a seat for you. July 2010 0115-10 Line 20 • Kaiser Hospital Places to Go with Your • Rockridge Shopping (Market Hall, • Dimond Shopping (Farmer Joe’s Crepevine) Marketplace, La Farine Bakery) • Rockridge BART Peralta Colleges EasyPass: • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping (Powderface Coffee and Beignets, Acapulco Records – Latin music) Line O: College of Alameda • Fruitvale BART • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping (Powderface • Alameda Natural Grocery Coffee and Beignets, Acapulco Records – Latin music) • Downtown Alameda • Fruitvale BART • Alameda Theatre and Cineplex • Altarena Playhouse • Alameda Town Center (Border’s Books, Old Navy) • Downtown Alameda • Washington Park • Alameda Theatre and Cineplex • College of Alameda • College of Alameda • Downtown Oakland • San Francisco Line 31: Line W: • Starbucks • San Francisco • Downtown Oakland • West Oakland BART Lines 851: • East Bay Bridge Center (Office Depot, • Downtown Alameda Best Buy) • Downtown Oakland • Ikea • Rockridge BART • AMC Theatres • Berkeley BART • Bay Street Shopping (Apple Store, Gap) • Powell Street Plaza Shopping To go to Berkeley City (Marshall’s, Ross Dress for Less) College: • Emeryville Market Place (International From Lines 31 or 51A, at 12th Food Court, Borders Books and Music) Street, Downtown Oakland, transfer • United Artists Emeryville Emery Bay 10 to Line 1/1R • Amtrak, Emeryville To go to Laney College: From Lines 31 or 51A, at 12th Line 51A: Street, Downtown Oakland, transfer • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping (Powderface to Lines 11, 26, or 88 Coffee and Beignets, Acapulco Records – Latin music) To go to Merritt College: • Fruitvale BART From Lines 31 or 51A, at 12th • Alameda Natural Grocery Street, Downtown Oakland, transfer • Downtown Alameda to Line 1/1R (or Line 40 at 11th and Broadway); transfer to Line 54 at • Alameda Theatre and Cineplex 35th Ave. • College of Alameda • Downtown Oakland Check before you ride – line College of Alameda • Paramount Theatre schedules vary with direction AC Transit Marketing •July 2010 • Summit Medical Center and time.