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Some Facts and Stats about WestCAT. Last updated 13 January 2010
Facts about WestCAT
Passengers Carried (FY 08/09): 1,410,432
Vehicle Service Miles (FY 08/09): 1,962,716
Fleet Size: 55
Number of Routes: 8 local fixed routes, 2 regional, 4 express routes
Number of Bus Stops: Approx. 250
Operations Contractor Employees: 104
WCCTA Employees: 7
Operations Facility:
Pinole: Western Contra Costa Transit Authority
Transit Hubs:
- Hercules Transit Center
- Richmond Parkway Transit Center
- Amtrak Station, Martinez
- Contra Costa College
- El Cerrito del Norte BART Station
- San Francisco Transbay Terminal
Operating Budget (FY 08/09): $7.90 million
Farebox Recovery: 27%
Population Served: 62,000
Area Served: 20 square miles
Joint Powers Agency
Board Members
- Virginia Fujita- Pinole
- Aleida Andrino-Chavez - Contra Costa County
- Tom Hansen - Contra Costa County
- Dr. Maureen Powers - Contra Costa County (Chair)
- Tricia Robles – Contra Costa County (Alternate)
- Debbie Long - Pinole (Vice-Chair)
- Kris Valstad - Hercules (Alternate)
- Ed Balico - Hercules
- Timothy Banuelos - Pinole (Alternate)
- Joanne Ward - Hercules
WestCAT and Nationwide Transportation Factoids
- WestCAT tallied 1.41 million passenger trips in FY08/09, averaging 5,212 riders each weekday, 1,179 riders each Saturday, and 533 riders each Sunday.
- WestCAT Dial-A-Ride provided 3,225 passengers with wheelchair-lift-assisted boardings in FY08/09.
- WestCAT BART express passenger trips tallied in FY08/09 were 654,812, averaging 2,333 riders each weekday, 838 riders each Saturday, and 533 riders each Sunday.
- Public transportation in West Contra Costa County represents a lifeline for older adults, linking them with family, friends and access to needed services.
- Work and school are the most popular destinations amongst WestCAT passengers.
- Every year, public transportation saves more than 855 million gallons of gasoline or 45 million barrels of oil. That is equivalent to the energy level to heat, cool, and operate 1/4 of American households each year.
- The National Safety Council estimates that riding the bus is over 170 times safer than automobile travel.
- According the U.S. Department of Transportation, energy burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories is responsible for about 80% of the U.S. society's carbon dioxide emissions, about 25% of U.S. methane emissions, and about 20% of global nitrous oxide emissions.
- If one in five Americans used public transportation daily, carbon monoxide pollution would decrease by more than all the emissions from the entire chemical manufacturing industry and all metal processing plants in the U.S.
- According to the American Public Transit Association (APTA) www.apta.com, riding public transportation is a significant way to cut passenger transportation energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Each year, transit passengers reduce their own use of fuel by the equivalent of 1.8 billion gallons of gasoline and reduce their own carbon dioxide emissions by 16.2 million metric tons. Combined with savings from improved traffic flow due to transit's impact on reducing congestion and secondary land use and travel reduction impacts, transit reduces annual fuel use by the equivalent of 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline and carbon dioxide emissions by 37 million metric tons.
- By providing reliable, cost-effective mobility that meets the highest standards in safety, public transportation is an essential element in sound national energy, security, and air quality policy.
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