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Chico-Oroville Bus Network Study - Phase 1 Survey

Introduction

Help shape the future of B-Line's local bus service in Chico and Oroville.

B-Line, the cities of Chico and Oroville, Butte County Association of Governments (BCAG), and Chico State are studying whether B-Line's local bus routes are working as well as they could: where routes go, when they run, and how well they serve the people who depend on them.
This study looks only at local service in Chico and Oroville and Route 20 between them. Regional and express routes, service to Paradise/Magalia and Biggs/Gridley, and paratransit are being reviewed separately and are not part of this survey.

To frame the choices, the project team built two contrasting conceptual networks for each city:
  • A Ridership Concept - concentrates buses on the busiest corridors so service is frequent and direct, but some lower-density areas get little or no service.
  • A Coverage Concept - spreads buses across more neighborhoods so nearly everyone lives near a stop, but buses come less often.
These are concepts, not plans. They are deliberately drawn at the two extremes to show the trade-off. The final network will almost certainly land somewhere in between and where it lands depends on what you tell us.

The next two pages give a short, optional overview of how transit works and why ridership and coverage pull against each other. If you've already read the Choices & Concepts Report, feel free to skip ahead. Otherwise, they'll take about two minutes and will make the concept maps easier to weigh.


Want the full detail? Click here to read the full Transit Choices & Concepts Report.

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