TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Michael A. Hursh, General Manager
SUBJECT: Transbay Service Recovery Priorities
ACTION ITEM
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider approving staff's methodology and priorities for Transbay service recovery across the next year. [Requested by Director Walsh - 5/12/21 and 7/28/21, and by the Board of Directors - 7/28/21]
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
Goal - Convenient and Reliable Service
Initiative - Service Quality
AC Transit plays a critical role in the regional mobility network by providing Transbay service to major job centers in San Francisco and the Peninsula. Much of that network was suspended during the pandemic and staff have developed a methodology for prioritizing lines to recover as more resources become available.
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no budget impact associated with this item. It is a proposed set of criteria and priorities to guide decisions about what service to restore as budget and workforce become available.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
Staff presented the Board with a set of system-wide service recovery principles in July 2021 (Staff Report 21-311) that provide staff, the Board, and the public with a roadmap of how decisions about which lines to recover will be made. That staff report placed Transbay service in a separate category from most other service and generated some questions about how staff plans to prioritize the return of Transbay service as resources become available. One key reason for Transbay service being in a separate category was most Transbay lines did not rank in the first or even second priority categories and would be unlikely to be implemented at all across the next year. Therefore, they were separated so that they could be mixed into sign-ups with Priority 1 line restoration.
As a follow-up to the board approved service recovery principles, staff worked to codify the methodology for how to prioritize Transbay service recovery and settled on four criteria:
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