Editorials

Bus route changes begin this weekend

Friday August 16, 2002

AC Transit is consolidating its bus stops at the downtown Berkeley BART station on Sunday. 

Eastbound stops on Center Street, at Shattuck, and northbound bus stops on Shattuck at Addison Street will be discontinued. The stops for northbound trips via local Lines 8, 15, 64, 65, 67 and transbay Line F will be grouped on Shattuck between Center and Addison streets. Northbound trips on Lines 7, 9, 43, 51, 604 and 605 will be grouped on Shattuck between Allston Way and Center Street. 

Southbound bus trips on Lines 7, 40/40L, 43, 51/51A, 65, 604, 605 and transbay Line F will connect at downtown Berkeley transfer center. The transfer center will include stops northbound and southbound grouped on Shattuck Avenue between Center Street and Allston Way. 

Also on Sunday, a new terminal will be introduced for Line 15 bus trips that begin or end in downtown Berkeley. Line 15's new Berkeley terminus will be in the UC Crescent (above Oxford Street between University Avenue and Center Street).