Highway 70 & Midday Sacramento Passengers!

July 22, 2009

Yuba-Sutter Transit is now seeking your input on a range of schedule and stop options to integrate the new Plumas Lake Park & Ride Lot into our existing Highway 70 and Midday Sacramento schedules. For this purpose, the Yuba-Sutter Transit Board of Directors has been set a special night meeting for 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 27, 2009 in the Yuba County Board of Supervisors Chambers at 915 Eighth Street, Marysville, California to conduct a public hearing on this issue (see attached notice).

Three draft Plumas Lake Park & Ride service plans are now being considered and all are attached for your review and comment. Option 1 would eliminate service to East Nicolaus on all nine weekday Highway 70 and Midday schedules that now stop in that location. Option 2 would simply add the Plumas Lake stop to the existing schedules with no change in the number of schedules that serve East Nicolaus. Option 3 would retain East Nicolaus service on just two morning and two afternoon schedules (1st & 3rd AM & PM 70's). Under Option 1, all existing schedules would begin and end at the same time they do now. Under Options 2 and 3, five minutes would be added to those schedules that include service to East Nicolaus for additional travel time in each direction for those that would use stops north of East Nicolaus.

Your input will be used to create a service plan recommendation that will be presented to the Yuba-Sutter Transit Board of Directors for their consideration as part of the August 27th meeting. At a minimum, please provide your name; the AM and PM schedule that you most frequently ride now; where you now board the bus in the morning; your preferred option; and, where you would catch the bus under that option. [Example: "My name is Jane Doe; I usually ride the 1st AM 70 and the 1st PM 70; I now board the bus in East Nicolaus; I prefer Option #1; and, I would catch the bus at the new park and ride."] In addition, feel free to submit specific alternate options for our consideration.

All comments or questions should be submitted to Keith Martin, Transit Manager by telephone at (530) 634-6880 (dial 511 toll free from Sacramento); by fax at (530) 634-6888; by e-mail at keith_martin@sbcglobal.net; or, by mail or in person at 2100 B Street, Marysville, CA 95901.