Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (SBMTD) introduced quite a lot of modifications forward of the 2023 college 12 months, together with connecting two traces in Western Goleta and a brand new specific freeway bus line between Santa Barbara Metropolis Faculty and Carpinteria.
SBMTD Planning and Advertising and marketing Supervisor Hillary Blackerby introduced the modifications Thursday, outlining the brand new companies and the beginning dates for every.
Beginning Monday, August 14, MTD will replace the routes for Line 23 (El Encanto Heights) and Line 25 (Ellwood/Winchester Canyon) to attach and cross the 101 freeway. Now the 23 will grow to be the 25, and vice versa, “to supply riders a one-seat experience by Western Goleta, irrespective of the route,” Blackerby mentioned.
Additionally on August 14, there can be “minor modifications” to Line 6 (Goleta), Line 11 (UCSB), and Line 20 (Carpinteria). On August 21, MTD will start to part within the annual Booster Service Routes to Ok-12 colleges within the metropolis, with just a few modifications to junior excessive and excessive colleges, that are famous on the MTD web site.
On August 28, in one of many largest new developments in public transit, MTD will start providing an specific Line 19x service to Carpinteria. Whereas there was a Line 20 to Carpinteria for years, the specific bus will take three journeys a day on the freeway straight from Milpas Road to Carpinteria and again.
The 2 routes had been “lengthy requested by the driving public,” and the three journeys are scheduled throughout peak hours: two northbound “a.m. peak” journeys, one noon spherical journey, and two southbound “p.m. peak” journeys, with the northbound route from Carpinteria, by Santa Barbara’s Eastside to the SBCC campus.
The Line 19x will run Monday by Friday in sync with SBCC’s semester schedule (the road is not going to run on college holidays, winter, or spring breaks).
Then on September 25, when UCSB is scheduled to start its fall quarter, MTD will enhance its weekday service for the Line 28 UCSB Shuttle to make sure there can be a brand new bus each 18 minutes.
To view all modifications, observe @santabarbaramtd on Instagram or go to sbmtd.gov.
