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17-766: Coachella Valley–San Gorgonio Pass Rail Corridor Service is an effort by the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) to start regular passenger rail services between Los Angeles and Indio, California . Service is envisioned to start at Los Angeles Union Station and run over the route of the Southwest Chief , switching to the valley's Union Pacific Railroad line at Colton to run over San Gorgonio Pass and terminating at Indio or Coachella . The proposed schedule would include one morning and one afternoon trip in each direction for two daily round trips. As of 2022,

34-474: A joint powers agency on August 15, 1975, and began operating bus service on March 16, 1977. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 5,584,200, or about 19,300 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024. RTA is governed by a board of directors composed of 22 elected officials from 18 cities in western Riverside County and four members of the County Board of Supervisors. The member jurisdictions include

51-712: A park and ride lot. The center is also a station for weekend excursion trains from the Orange Empire Railway Museum , and is a station on Metrolink 's 91/Perris Valley Line . The Corona Transit Center opened in September 2010, adjacent to the North Main Corona Metrolink station . The center has 8 bus bays, additional park-and-ride parking and a direct connection to the Metrolink station and its associated parking garage via

68-706: A Common Access card indicating uniformed services or active duty. Police and fire personnel must be in full uniform at the time of boarding. Customers must wear the appropriate uniform or show appropriate ID each time they board a bus to receive the discounted fare. RTA maintains several transit centers throughout their service area. Downtown Riverside is served by the Vine Street Mobility Hub The Downtown Perris station , located between 1st and 2nd Streets, east of C Street in Perris , opened on January 10, 2010, with six bus bays and

85-683: A number of studies seeking to implement a more regional service via various modes and which at the time, also studied service all the way to Calexico . Funding for the current project headed by the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) initially came from the SunLine Transit Agency , with further support by federal grants, the California State Rail Assistance program, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and

102-727: A pedestrian bridge. Major transfer points are also located at several shopping centers throughout the area such as The Galleria at Tyler , the Moreno Valley Mall , the Hemet Valley Mall , the Outlets at Lake Elsinore, and Temecula's Promenade Mall . RTA's service consists of 32 local fixed routes and three CommuterLink Express routes. The fixed-route service includes tourist trolleys (stylized rubber-tired buses, not to be confused with actual trolleys ). The agency also provides dial-a-ride service in compliance with

119-478: Is designed to help ease traffic congestion around campus, reduce parking problems and encourage ride-sharing. Additionally, RTA operates a trolley service called the Crest Cruiser that is free to UCR students and travels around the university to off-campus housing and retail outlets. Students of La Sierra University have also benefited from U-Pass since January 2009, and California Baptist University joined

136-655: Is estimated to cost $ 1 billion, of which $ 23 million had been raised as of 2022. In December 2023, the Federal Railroad Administration accepted an application by Caltrans to enter the Coachella–Los Angeles route into its Corridor Identification and Development Program . The program grants $ 500,000 toward service planning and prioritizes the route for future federal funding. Riverside County Transportation Commission The Riverside County Transportation Commission ( RCTC )

153-558: Is one of Metrolink 's five governing agencies. It is additionally the planning agency for the Coachella Valley–San Gorgonio Pass Rail Corridor Service . RCTC is also a member of Southern California Association of Governments . This article about transportation in California is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Riverside Transit Agency RTA was established as

170-656: Is the County Transportation Commission for Riverside County, California , United States. It is an association of local governments in the county, with policy makers consisting of mayors , councilmembers , and county supervisors , and is the funding agency for the county's transit systems, which include Corona Cruiser , Riverside Transit Agency , SunLine Transit Agency , Pass Transit Agency and Palo Verde Valley Transit Agency . It also provides funds for city transit in Corona and Riverside and

187-582: The Sunset Limited , has made stops in the Coachella Valley since the train's inception under Southern Pacific . When Amtrak took over control of the service in 1971 it had been reduced in frequency to three round trips per week. Amtrak maintained this schedule, and by 1999 the only passenger rail station in the valley is located in a remote part of Palm Springs which is served at inconvenient hours. Since at least 1991, there have been

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204-620: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Long been seen as the preferred operator, Amtrak was formally identified in the Alternative Analysis phase. A draft environmental impact report was released by the RCTC in May 2021. By July 2022, Commissioners with the RCTC certified the route. In September 2022, they planned to seek Federal funding of $ 60 million for more in-depth studies on infrastructure and station locations. The project

221-588: The Riverside County Courts, anyone serving as a juror at the Riverside, Banning and Murrieta Courthouses is entitled to free travel on any RTA bus. Any person who meets RTA active duty military, police or fire personnel requirements rides free on RTA fixed-route buses. Active duty military personnel must wear the appropriate uniform at the time of boarding or present to the driver a valid U.S. Uniformed Services ID card indicating active service or

238-607: The bus farebox when boarding. As of August 2014, the Go-Pass has logged more than 4.5 million RCCD student rides. In August 2010, RTA expanded the reach of its Go-Pass program by partnering with the Mt. San Jacinto College District. Students at the Banning, Menifee and San Jacinto campuses who pay their student fees are allowed unlimited rides on all fixed-route and CommuterLink buses with the swipe of their ID card. Under an agreement with

255-712: The cities of Banning, Beaumont, Canyon Lake, Corona, Eastvale, Hemet, Jurupa Valley, Lake Elsinore, Moreno Valley, Menifee, Murrieta, Norco, Perris, Riverside, San Jacinto, Temecula, Wildomar and the unincorporated areas of Riverside County Supervisorial Districts I, II, III and V. As of 8-30-2023: In September 2006, RTA partnered with the University of California, Riverside (UCR) to provide their students with an all-access bus pass. UC Riverside students get free rides on all fixed-route and CommuterLink buses by swiping their valid university identification cards through any RTA bus farebox when they board. The program, called U-Pass,

272-606: The current rail line in the Coachella Valley is owned by the Union Pacific Railroad , as part of its Sunset Route between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona. The Sunset Limited Amtrak service stops at the Palm Springs station three times a week in each direction. Passenger service connecting Riverside County with Los Angeles has existed since the opening of the Sunset Route . The flagship train,

289-591: The program in August 2009. As of August 21, 2008, RTA has also partnered with Riverside Community College District (RCCD) to provide the same free transit services to students at the Riverside City and Moreno Valley college campuses. (The Norco campus failed to pass an initiative to fund the program, and currently only students at Riverside and Moreno Valley are eligible.) The program, called Go Pass, requires that students swipe their valid RCCD ID cards through

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