About This Site
AC Transit provides bus transportation to 230,000 people a day in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has 815 buses, an annual operating budget over $244 million and an elected board of directors – yet it receives little attention from the media, even though it is a public agency.
A first-year class at the Graduate School of Journalism in Fall 2002 taught by Robert Gunnison looked into the sprawling system and how it operates. Each student profiled a bus line and examined an aspect of AC Transit operations, from global positioning technology to cleaning the buses. They rode many buses, visited maintenance yards and dispatch centers, and interviewed dozens of drivers, employees and passengers. These stories are the result of their work.