On schedule
Subtitle: recollections of a planning and scheduling manager at the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
By: Donald S. Larson. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: McCreery, Laura.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: Larson, Donald S., 1941-; Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (Calif.) -- History.; San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.); Transportation -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.; Paratransit services -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; People with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Transportation.; Older people -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Transportation.
Other titles: Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District oral history series.
Description: Family roots in Oakland, California; first AC Transit job as traffic checker, 1961; role of the schedule analyst; history of National City Lines; changing rail lines to bus lines; effects of drivers' contract; learning scheduling from Warren Robinson and Dick Videll; the Bay Bridge and other commute routes; cost issues for schedule department; starting a planning department; writing AC Transit's first five-year plan; developing public transit outside the district; the federal government's increasing role in planning, 1970s; the Metropolitan Transportation Commission; transit access for disabled patrons; transit provisions for senior citizens; the advent of BART; the AC Transit strike of 1974; Proposition 13, 1978, and long-term effects on planning; the Dial-a-Ride Program; the district's annexation of Fremont and Newark; service to BART's outlying areas; computerizing the schedule department, early 1980s; AC Transit's management environment over the years; overview of general managers and board relations; AC Transit as an employer; retirement, 1999.