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8.B. - Page 17 of 70 <br />Redwood City Transit Center Redesign Study <br />Summary Report <br />Existing Conditions <br />A comprehensive inventory and review of the existing <br />conditions in and around the Transit Center was conducted. <br />The review included existing transit services, parking, bicycle <br />and pedestrian facilities, land use and zoning, Transit Center <br />amenities, circulation of buses, pedestrian circulation, and <br />wayfinding/signage. <br />Based on the 2018 SamTrans and the 2019 Caltrain <br />Ridership Reports, the Downtown Transit Center <br />accommodates about 4,200 rail and 2,200 bus passenger <br />boardings and alightings each weekday. The rail station is <br />the fifth busiest on the Caltrain system in both passenger <br />ridership and bike usage; the bus station handles about 20% <br />of the existing SamTrans service. The average weekday <br />bicycle ridership at Redwood City Caltrain Station in 2019 <br />was 351 bicycles. The Center accommodates these crowds in <br />a generally efficient manner, but there is room for <br />improvement. Architectural and wayfinding elements are not <br />what would be expected in such a strategic transit hub. The <br />boarding locations of complementary services like shuttles <br />and ride -hailing are not defined. Moreover, the circulation of <br />buses is hampered by the bottleneck that can occur at the <br />Center's main vehicular portal on James Avenue and by poor <br />circulation within the bus station. <br />Smith <br />Existing Transit Services <br />The station is served by 38 Caltrain trains in each direction <br />on weekdays and 12-14 trains in each direction on <br />weekends. Trains depart from the northbound platform of <br />the station from about 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on weekdays, <br />7:45 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and 8:45 a.m. to <br />9:45 p.m. on Sundays. <br />The bus station was served by 14 different SamTrans bus <br />routes in 2017, which has been reduced to 12 routes in 2019 <br />(see Table 1). Of these, ten terminate and layover at the <br />Center, while the remaining two (ECR, and 397) are through <br />routes that continue on to other termini. One route (95) <br />Bus Station Showing Triple Bus Bays <br />operates only on school days and another (278) only on <br />Saturdays. Several routes operate only on weekdays or offer <br />Page 5 <br />560 <br />