Wheels (bus service)

, Wheels operates 15 regular routes. This includes two Rapid routes (10R and 30R) with limited stops and frequent all-day service, and three express routes (20X, 70X and 580X) with limited peak-hour service. Fifteen additional routes, numbered 501–504 and 601–611, operate a small number of trips to serve schools. The primary transfer hubs are at Dublin/Pleasanton station (served by BART) and Livermore Transit Center (served by ACE). • 1 Gleason/Hacienda • 2 East Dublin/Fallon Middle School • 3 Stoneridge • 4 Central Dublin • 8 Hopyard • 10R Pleasanton-Livermore • 14 Pleasanton-Livermore • 15 Springtown • 18 Granada • 20X Vasco • 30R Dublin-Livermore • 53 Stoneridge • 54 Hacienda • 70X Pleasant Hill • 580X Airway ==History==

Rideo local bus service in Livermore began on August 7, 1978. In 1984, Dublin and Pleasanton began planning a local bus system, which Livermore was initially apprehensive about joining. In May 1985, the three cities plus Alameda County formed the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA) as a joint powers authority. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission provided initial funding in September 1985. The new bus service, branded as "Wheels", began operating in Dublin and Pleasanton on July 1, 1986. It initially had nine buses operating on hourly headways, which ran on weekdays and Saturdays but not Sundays. Rideo was merged into Wheels in July 1987. In 2004, the BART I-580 Corridor Transit Study found that a BART extension to Livermore would not be feasible. Instead, the report recommended a rapid bus network serving the Tri-Valley. Construction on the "Tri-Valley Rapid" project took place from November 2009 to December 2010. The weekday-only route operated every 10 minutes at peak and 15 minutes off-peak. It included some bus rapid transit elements like wider stop spacing, signal priority, and queue jumps. On August 13, 2016, local route 10 was converted to Rapid route 10R. It ran between Dublin/Pleasanton station and Livermore via Pleasanton. Route R was rerouted via Las Positas College and renamed route 30R at that time. By 2019, the two Rapid routes represented half of Wheels ridership. == References ==