™ 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 can use it on sure you are on the correct side of load and unload their own bikes. Welcome the Web, cell the street for your direction of travel. phones, or at to EasyPass! Wait for the bus as close as possible Your Peralta Colleges EasyPass NextBus bus Class Pass Destinations Map to the bus stop pole to make it easier – Merritt College, gives you access stop displays (at On the back of this guide, you will for the bus operator to see you. You to the East Bay, San Francisco, and the certain stops) to find a handy map of restaurants, don’t have to signal the bus, but Peninsula. Use this handy pocket guide find out when shopping districts, selected BART doing so will help ensure that the to learn how to get around using the next bus is stations, and entertainment options AC Transit. Our buses run 24 hours operator doesn’t miss you by coming. Visit that you can get to by using your a day in more than two dozen cities mistake. When the bus arrives, www.actransit.org/nextbus to find EasyPass on bus lines that travel and unincorporated areas, and we check the line number or letter to out how to use NextBus. near the Peralta College campuses. cross the Bay, San Mateo, and make sure it’s the bus you want. AC Transit can get you nearly Dumbarton bridges. Printed Maps & Schedules anywhere a car can, without the Merritt 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 publish individual pocket schedules style buses). The “Stop Requested” want. with a route map for each bus line. Planning Your AC Transit Trip 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 usually additional bus stops between • View maps and schedules on our it easier for seniors and persons with www.peralta.edu/easypass the time points. Just find the time Web site at www.actransit.org. disabilities to ride. Priority seating is point closest to where you are • Pick up our printed maps and clearly marked on every bus with starting your AC Transit trip and schedules from locations around signs above or near the seats. If you read down the column under the the Peralta campuses. are a senior or a person with a time point in order to find the time • Call the AC Transit Information disability, you may ask the operator you need to be at the bus stop. Center at 511 (and say, “AC to remind non-disabled passengers AC Transit Marketing & Community Relations Transit,” then say, “Information”). to vacate a seat for you. July 2010 0116-10 Line 54: Line NL: Places to Go with Your • Lincoln Square Center (Sparky’s Giant • Eastmont Transit Center1 Burgers, Safeway) • Dimond Shopping (Farmer Joe’s Peralta Colleges EasyPass: • Farmer Joe’s Marketplace Marketplace, La Farine Bakery)2 • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping (Powderface • Lake Merritt Coffee and Beignets, Acapulco • Lakeshore Shopping (Arizmendi Merritt College Records – Latin music) Bakery, Waldon Pond Books) • Fruitvale BART • Kaiser Center • Downtown Oakland Transfer to the following • Oakland Ice Center Rink lines at MacArthur Blvd.: • Fox Theatre • Paramount Theatre Line 14: • Great Western Power (rock climbing • Fruitvale Plaza Shopping (Powderface and sports) Coffee and Beignets, Acapulco • San Francisco Records – Latin music) • Fruitvale BART Line NX3: • Laney College • Eastmont Transit Center1 • Downtown Oakland • San Francisco Line 57: Line 805: • Eastmont Transit Center1 • Eastmont Transit Center1 • Dimond Shopping (Farmer Joe’s • Coliseum BART 2 Marketplace, La Farine Bakery) • Oakland International Airport • Loard’s Ice Cream • Lakeshore Shopping (Arizmendi To go to Berkeley City College: Bakery, Waldon Pond Books) From Line 54, at 35th Ave. and • Grand Lake Theatre International Blvd., transfer to Line 1/1R • Kaiser Hospital To go to College of Alameda: From Line 54, at 35th Ave. and • Piedmont Shopping (Barney’s, Fenton’s International Blvd., transfer to Line 1/1R Creamery) (or at 35th Ave. and Foothill Blvd., • Piedmont Cinemas transfer to Line 40) and go to 12th Street, • MacArthur BART Downtown Oakland, to transfer to either Line 31 or 51A • East Bay Bridge Center (Office Depot, Best Buy) To go to Laney College: From Line 54, at 35th Ave. and International Blvd., transfer to Line 1/1R Line 58L: (or at 35th Ave. and Foothill Blvd., • Dimond Shopping (Farmer Joe’s transfer to Line 40) and go to 12th and Marketplace, La Farine Bakery)2 Oak Street, and walk 3 – 4 blocks • Oakland Museum of California 1 From Eastmont Transit Center, transfer to Line • Chinatown 73 or 805 (all nighter) to get to the Oakland • Regal Cinemas Jack London Stadium 9 International Airport. 2 • Jack London Square (Yoshi’s Jazz Club, On Lines 57, 58L, NL, from Fruitvale and MacArthur Blvd., transfer to Line 39 or 339 Miss Pearl’s Jam House) to go to Chabot Space & Science Center, • Amtrak, Jack London Square Joaquin Miller Park, and Redwood Regional Park. Merritt College AC Transit Marketing • July 2010 Check before you ride – line schedules vary with direction and time.