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Rapid bus lines coming countywide

COAST CITIES — SANDAG is getting closer to launching new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Stations proposed in Downtown San Diego.At a recent open house, interested stakeholders learned about the planned transit shelters, signage, and sidewalk improvements along the Broadway corridor. The draft environmental document for the project was released on June 10 for a 30-day public comment period ending July 9.

Two Rapid bus lines will begin serving San Diego County in 2014 in the Interstate 15 Corridor and in Mid-City. A third line for South County is proposed to begin service in 2015. All of these lines will terminate in downtown San Diego along the Broadway corridor.

SANDAG will construct branded stations for Rapid services on the north side of Broadway between Union and Front streets, Fourth and Fifth avenues, and Eleventh Avenue and Park Boulevard; on the south side of Broadway between Front Street and First Avenue, Fourth and Fifth avenues, and Eleventh Avenue and Park Boulevard;

on each side of One America Plaza on India Street and Kettner Boulevard, between Broadway and C Street and on Park Boulevard between C Street and Broadway for the Mid-City line only.