Orange County Bus Tour - 9/29/01

The Southern California Transit Advocates' study tour of octa land will happen on Saturday, September 29th.  We will be meeting at the Santa Ana train station at 9:30am, and will be attempting to follow the schedule listed below.  The intent is to study at least part of the aftermath of last year's "Straightlining".

PLEASE let me know if you're coming down for sure!  If you are (or expect to be) running late on game day, will have my phone with me...contact me for the phone number for routing to convenient meet-up.  Also please let me know if I am missing any obvious e-mail addresses (I think I'm missing Andy's, unless his happens to be one of the above already?)

Basic Study Tour sked below...full sked to follow.  Stops are nearest intersection, from personal observations, so may differ from Bus Book or official list; times in (parentheses) estimated from personal experience, etc., for stops between time-checks.  All will almost certainly differ from Transtar, which I may or may not get around to checking in the meantime, yawn.

To the event

Amtrak #570 - Chatsworth 7:25a, LA 8:30a, Fullerton 9:02a, Santa Ana 9:23a
MTA 460 - Figueroa 6:37a/7:07a, Green Line 7:23a/7:53a, Disneyland 8:18a/8:50a
[use latter time at own risk...if late, take 43 south to Bolsa Ave by 9:52a, eastbound #64 should get to SATT by 10:13am...if not, stay on to Wilson Ave, see you on #180 at about (11:39a)]
OCTA 205 - Disneyland 8:50a, Santa Ana/Santiago 9:21a
[All-OCTA from Fullerton - OCTA 43 leaves 8:08a, Disneyland (8:41a)]

The tour itself

205 - Santa Ana/Santiago 9:54a, SATT 10:01am
155 - SATT 10:20a, Main/MacArthur (10:53a)
180 - MacArthur/Main 11:12a, 17th/Orange (11:54a)
173 - Orange/17th (12:02a), Hospital/Placentia (12:10p)
71 - Hospital/Placentia (12:20p), Newport/23rd 12:27p [Balboa/19th
(12:29)]
= lunch break =
47 - Balboa/24th 1:28p, Fairview/Fair 1:52p
173 - Fair/Fairview 2:04p, 19th/Harbor 2:15p
43 - Park/Plumer 2:24p/2:39p, Harbor/Bolsa (2:57p/3:12p)
64 - Bolsa/Harbor 3:04p/3:16p/3:28p
- 1st/Bristol (3:14p/3:26p/3:38p/3:50p/4:02p)
- 1st/Main (3:28p/3:40p/3:52p/4:04p/4:16p/4:28p)

Depending on timing, route to dinner uses either:
64 - 1st/Main (3:52p/4:52p), 1st/Grand 3:59p/4:59p
59 - Grand/2nd (411p/511p), Grand/17th 4:15p/5:15p

or:
53 - Main/1st (3:40p/3:52p/4:04p/4:16p/4:28p/4:40p/4:52p/5:04p)
- Main/17th (3:52p/4:04p/4:16p/4:28p/4:40p/4:52p/5:04p/5:16p)
60 - 17th/Main (3:53p/4:09p/4:23p/4:38p/4:53p/5:09p/5:23p/5:38p)
- 17th/Lincoln (3:58p/4:14p/4:28p/4:43p/4:58p/5:14p/5:28p/5:43p)

Dinner after, followed by an optional evening tour hosted by Philip Capo

-- Mark Strickert
Transit Advocates of Orange County

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