Using NextBus ™ Real-Time sure you are on the correct side of EasyPass Destinations Map Arrival the street for your direction of travel. On the back of this guide, you will Wait for the bus as close as possible NextBus is AC Transit’s real-time bus find a handy map of restaurants, to the pole to make it easier arrival predictor. You shopping districts, selected BART for the bus operator to see you. You can use it on the Web, stations, and entertainment options don’t have to signal the bus, but doing cell phones, or at that you can get to by using your so will help ensure that the operator Welcome NextBus bus stop dis - EasyPass on bus lines that travel doesn’t miss you by mistake. When the to EasyPass ! plays (at certain stops) near Ironhorse. AC Transit can get bus arrives, check the line number or Your Ironhorse EasyPass to find out when the you nearly anywhere a car can, letter to make sure it’s the bus you want. gives you access to the East Bay, next bus is coming. without the parking hassles or ex - San Francisco, and the Peninsula. Use Visit www.actransit.org/nextbus pense! Hop on board any line and this handy pocket guide to learn how to find out how to use NextBus. Stopping the Bus begin a new adventure. Be sure to to get around using AC Transit. Our Request your stop by pulling the double check the schedule before run 24 hours a day in more than cord, pressing the button on the you ride to ensure the line is running two dozen cities and unincorporated Printed Maps & Schedules areas, and we cross the Bay, We publish two system maps that pole, or pressing the button above when you want. San Mateo, and Dumbarton bridges. together cover the AC Transit service your head (on the green, commuter- area: San Pablo to Oakland, and style buses). The “Stop Requested” San Leandro to Fremont. We also sign will light. If you are not sure publish individual pocket schedules when your stop will be coming up, with a route map for each bus line. ask the operator to let you know.

Using Pocket Schedules Accessibility Most pocket schedules list several All AC Transit buses have built-in Planning Your AC Transit Trip of the bus stops along the route, with features—passenger lifts, ramps, There are four ways to plan your the times the bus is expected to arrive handrails, and kneelers—that make AC Transit trip: at each stop. These stops are called it easier for seniors and persons with • Use online trip-planning tools at “time points.” There are usually disabilities to ride. Priority seating is www.actransit.org, www.511.org , additional bus stops between the clearly marked on every bus with or on Google Transit at time points. Just find the time point signs above or near the seats. If you www.google.com/transit. closest to where you are starting are a senior or a person with a For more information, visit: • View maps and schedules on our your AC Transit trip and read down disability, you may ask the operator www.actransit.org Web site at www.actransit.org. the column under the time point in to remind non-disabled passengers www.actransit.org/easypass • Pick up our printed maps order to find the time you need to to vacate a seat for you. and schedules from the Ironhorse be at the bus stop. Management Office. Bringing Your Bicycle • Call the AC Transit Information the Bus All AC Transit buses have a rack on Center at 511 (and say, “AC Bus stops are marked with the AC the front for two bikes. You may load Transit,” then say, “Information”). Transit logo and display the bus a bicycle at any time of day, with lines that stop there. Most bus lines no extra or permit. Cyclists must AC Transit Marketing & Community Relations have stops every few blocks. Make load and unload their own bikes. December 2010

0167-10 Line 1/1R: • College of Alameda Line 72/72M/ Places to Go with Your • • Bay Fair Mall • West Oakland BART 72R: • Oakland International • East Bay Bridge Center • (transfer to Line (Office Max, Best Buy) Ironhorse EasyPass 73 at International and (Yoshi’s Jazz Club & 73rd Avenue) • MacArthur BART Japanese Restaurant, Miss Pearl’s Jam House) • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping (Powderface Coffee and Line 40: • Regal Cinemas Jack London Stadium 9 Beignets, Acapulco • Eastmont Transit Center Records – Latin music) • Downtown Oakland • Dimond Shopping • Fruitvale BART (Farmer Joe’s Marketplace, • Paramount Theatre • BART La Farine Bakery) • Sea Salt Restaurant • 12th Street BART • Lake Merritt • REI • 19th Street BART • Oakland Museum of • El Cerrito Plaza Shopping • Oakland Ice Center Rink (Barnes & Noble, Bed, Bath & Beyond) • Fox Theatre • Laney College (walk 3 – 4 blocks from 12th and Oak) • El Cerrito Plaza BART • Paramount Theatre • 12th Street BART • Rialto Cinemas Cerrito Theatre • MacArthur BART • Chinatown • El Cerrito Del Norte BART • Temescal Shopping (Genova Delicatessen, • Contra Costa College Pizzaiolo) Line 51A: • Hilltop Mall (Macy’s, Sears) • Whole Foods Market, • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping Berkeley (Powderface Coffee and Line NL: Beignets, Acapulco • Telegraph Avenue Records – Latin music) • Dimond Shopping Shopping (Moe’s Books, (Farmer Joe’s Marketplace , Amoeba Music) • Fruitvale BART La Farine Bakery) • Downtown Berkeley BART • Downtown Alameda • Lake Merritt • Alameda Theatre and • Lakeshore Shopping Line 26: Cineplex (Arizmendi Bakery, • Lakeshore Shopping • College of Alameda Waldon Pond Books) (Arizmendi Bakery, • Jack London Square • Kaiser Center Trader Joe’s) • Chinatown • Downtown Oakland • Downtown Oakland • 12th Street BART • Oakland Ice Center Rink • West Oakland BART • 19th Street BART • Fox Theatre • East Bay Bridge Center • Oakland Ice Center Rink • Paramount Theatre (Office Max, Best Buy) • Fox Theatre • Great Western Power • Ikea • Paramount Theatre (rock climbing and sports) • AMC Theatres • Oakland YMCA • San Francisco • Bay Street Shopping (Apple Store, Cold Stone • Summit Medical Center Line 800: Creamery) • Kaiser Hospital • San Francisco • Powell Street Plaza • Grocery Outlet • West Oakland BART Shopping (Marshall’s, • Rockridge Shopping Ross Dress for Less) (Market Hall, Crepevine) • Downtown Oakland • Emeryville Market Place • Rockridge BART • Ashby BART (International Food Court, • Downtown Berkeley BART Borders Books and Music) Line 62: • United Artists Emeryville Emery Bay 10 • Fruitvale BART Line 801: • Amtrak, Emeryville • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping • Bay Fair BART (Powderface Coffee and • San Leandro BART Line 31: Beignets, Acapulco • Fruitvale BART Records – Latin music) • 12th Street BART • Alameda Point (Alameda • Highland Hospital Point Antiques Faire, • Lake Merritt BART USS Hornet Museum ) Check before you ride – Ironhorse • East Ocean Seafood • China Town line schedules vary with Restaurant • West Oakland BART direction and time. AC Transit Marketing • December 2010