Starting Sunday, June 24, SamTrans will adjust several routes and add service. The changes are part of a service review that the transit agency conducts three times a year to respond to traffic impacts, customer travel patterns and other variables like the summer break for schools.
Some changes will impact Redwood City commuters. They include the ECR Rapid line, a complement to the ECR service that will “speed up travel time along El Camino Real by up to 40 minute,” according to the transit agency.
The “Rapid” version will serve 11 stops from the Redwood City Transit Center to Daly City BART, with stops at major intersections and transfer points. The service will be offered weekday mornings and afternoons from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, the frequency of regular ECR service will reduce from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes during the weekdays, and from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes during weekends. ECR service will be added late-night to between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. on weekdays and weekends.
Due to the summer break for schools, school-day only trips will not occur on these routes between June 25 and Aug. 3: 14, 19, 24, 25, 28, 29, 35, 37, 39, 46, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 67, 68, 72, 73, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 95, 110, 112, 120, 130, 140, 141, 250, 251 and 256. School service will start again on Aug. 6.
Between June 19 and July 27, routes 16, 18 and 286 will have summer school-day only service.
New timetables soon will be available on SamTrans buses and at city halls, libraries and at www.samtrans.com. Or you can call 1-800-660-4287 (TTY 650-508-6448).
The next system schedule change will occur Aug. 5, partly to account for the start of the new school year.
