Rail
This Agency operates seven train lines over 545 miles of railroad, operates 67 stations, and moves people across 6 southland counties.
What is Metrolink?
This simple place on a roadside is a good place to get picked up (by the bus).
What is a bus stop?
This type of device has two wheels, is human powered, and can be placed on the front of most transit buses for your mixed commute.
What is a bicycle?
This provides vital mobility to many Californians daily, central to powering our society and economy, results in significant safety benefits for all road users and aids California to achieve its goal of eliminating fatalities and serious injuries and reducing GHGs.
What is Transit?
This USDOT Agency provides financial assistance to help plan, build and operate rail, bus and paratransit systems. The agency also assists in the development of local and regional traffic reduction programs.
What is the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)?
This train operator is an entity of the Federal Government and has three Caltrans-supported routes that are run by Joint Powers Authorities across the State.
What is Amtrak?
This is what it costs to ride your transit vehicle of choice.
What is a Fare?
You may want to lace these up instead of your dress shoes for your 1/2 mile walk to your bus stop.
What are sneakers (running/walking shoes, athletic, etc.)?
This (what number?) Caltrans Director's Policy calls for Caltrans to support, and, to the extent feasible and practicable, incorporates transit priority facilities within the State Highway System (SHS).
What is 40?
In California, these counties have enacted local voter-approved funding mechanisms — such as half-cent sales taxes — to pay for transportation improvements.
This railroad company owns the northern portion of the Orange County line, between LA County Line and Fullerton.
What is BNSF?
These are sometimes painted red to give more emphasis on their exclusivity.
What are dedicated transit lanes?
These boxes, available at many transit stations and train stations will keep your trusty (non-motorized) wheels clean, safe, and dry.
What are bike lockers?
This is the intent of the recently-released Director's Transit Policy.
What is improve transit access on the State Highway System?
This State law was enacted in 1971. Its' funds are generated from a tax of one-quarter of one percent on all retail sales in each CA county; used for transit, special transit for disabled persons, and bicycle and pedestrian purposes.
What is the Transportation Development Act (TDA)?
This is the clear perpendicular distance between the inner faces of the two load-bearing rails on a railway track.
What is Railroad Gauge? (Standard, most common gauge, is used by roughly 60% of railways.)
This is normally located at signalized intersections to give buses a head start.
What is transit signal prioritization?
Take this type of ride from the station/stop to your destination using your phone's app to call for your ride.
What is Rideshare (Uber, Lyft, etc.)?
This term refers to infrastructure that makes road-based transit service faster and more reliable. Such infrastructure may include, transit-only lanes, managed lanes, queue jump lanes at intersections, traffic signal priority for transit, and shoulders that serve as bus lanes during congested periods.
What are Transit Priority Facilities?
The movement of a transit vehicle while not in service, either to/from the garage or to/from its next trip.
What is "Deadheading"?
These are the three Amtrak corridors that are run by JPAs in California.
What is LOSSAN, the San Joaquin JPA, and the Capital Corridor JPA.
This is the payment receptacle/card reader that is located next to the bus driver as you board the bus.
What is the farebox?
This type of facility is intended to be a place to share rides, pick up transit, rent/share a mobility device, and possibly pick up your packages.
What is a mobility hub?
This HQ staffer is a Headquarters level point of contact for Caltrans employees, local officials, and transit agencies to discuss concerns and suggestions relating to transit. Their goal is to promote transit efficiency, improve the allocation of resources to transit, and to increase the number of transit users/trips across the state.
Who is the Transit Program Advisor?
The time scheduled between two successive trips when the vehicle is parked out of service. The time is used for schedule recovery time to help with delays and for driver breaks.
What is a Layover or Recovery Time?