Staff Report SolTrans will be hosting a series of meetings and workshops in Benicia and Vallejo to allow the public to provide input with the revision of local service. The goal of the meetings is to help SolTrans improve its local routes, General Public Dial-A-Ride and Local Taxi Scrip services. The first workshop will be […]
Mayor to host Mobile Town Hall for discussion on improving Route 20
Final day to RSVP is today SolTrans Chairwoman and Benicia Mayor Elizabeth Patterson will be hosting a town hall discussion on the bus system’s Route 20, which stretches from Benicia to Vallejo. As a bonus, attendees will be able to ride the route as they take part in the discussion. The “Mobile Town Hall” will […]
SolTrans participating in national ‘Dump the Pump Day’
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, to fill up one’s car with regular gas costs about $2.86 per gallon. That number has been higher in the past, but it is still pretty expensive especially for people who commute. What can be done to ease the frustration of paying too much for gas? Well, maybe […]
Bill would fund overhaul of transit hub
Vallejo park-and-ride on Curtola Parkway may get $10.5M expansion A SolTrans bus hub improvement project in Vallejo would get a boost if legislation introduced by state Sen. Lois Wolk is passed by the Legislature. Wolk, D-Davis, is Benicia’s representative in the Senate. Her Senate Bill 1368 would modernize and expand the existing SolTrans Curtola park-and-ride […]
SolTrans tinkers with times on pair of bus routes
Minor time changes to two SolTrans bus routes will start Monday, Jessica Deakyne, agency analyst, said, though Route 1 will start its day 20 minutes earlier. The bus operator’s board of directors approved the modifications last month to Routes 1 and 3, Deakyne said.