TMN | TRANSIT - Foothill Transit - Silver Streak (Westbound) FULL RIDE

TMN s2e51 | TRANSIT - Foothill Transit - Line 707 Silver Streak

Montclair CA | April 28, 2019 | 1530

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"Outfoxing the Fox" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
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The Southern California Rapid Transit District (RTD), a predecessor agency to present day L.A. Metro announced service cuts in the San Gabriel Valley. In 1988, newly created Foothill Transit acquired several local and express lines from the RTD over a period of five years (Foothill Transit, 2012, p. 10). Line 480 was one of those lines acquired; while under Foothill Transit administration, the line grew in popularity and was constantly crowding (Foothill Transit, 2006, p. 18).

To alleviate some of the crowding, Foothill Transit was developing a new express service by solely using 60 foot low floor articulated transit buses specially designed for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) (Gutierrez, 2006). On March 18, 2007, line 707 Silver Streak was introduced and being funded by Proposition C, a voter-approved sales tax ordinance to provide overcrowding relief on specific bus lines (Foothill, 2012, p. 25).

Line 480 was reduced to local service from Monclair to West Covina while the Silver Streak streamlined routing by utilizing the El Monte Busway and HOV lanes on the Interstate 10 freeway. Foothill Transit's Silver Streak Line is Southern California's only 24 hour service from Montclair in San Bernardino County to Downtown Los Angeles (Foothill Transit, 2018). These are the scenes from that afternoon.

Express Fare One Way with CASH or TAP Card
Children Ages 5 and under, up to two kids with each paying adult: FREE
Silver Streak Adults and Students: $2.75 | $2.50 (TAP)
Senior/Disabled/Medicare Local Ages 62+/With LACTOA or Medicare Card: $0.75 | $0.50 (TAP)
Discount Silver Streak For Seniors, Disabled and Medicare Card holders: $1.25 | $1.15 (TAP)
Transfers from other agencies that connect to Silver Streak, upcharge fare of $1.25

For Silver Streak bus information http://foothilltransit.org/wp-content...

Manufacture: North American Bus Industries
Class: 60-BRT CNG
Year: 2006
Number: F1619
Division: Irwindale/Arcadia Yard
VIN Number: 1N960B0436A140149

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References

Canadian Public Transit Discussion Board (2019). Retrieved on April 2019 from https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Footh...

(2006). Foothill Transit Business Plan Fiscal Year, p18. http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGT...

Foothill Transit (2012). Foothill Transit Fiscal Year 2013 Business Plan, pp. 10, 26. Retrieved on June 2019 from http://foothilltransit.org/wp-content...

Foothill Transit (2018). Silver Streak Schedule. Retrieved on June 2019 from http://foothilltransit.org/wp-content...

Gutierrez, Nisha (2006). Foothill Transit's Silver Streak Set to Launch. Retrieved on June 2019 from
https://web.archive.org/web/200709281...

"Outfoxing the Fox" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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