New Napa Valley Bus Schedules, Routes, Fares Begin

The new website for VINE bus schedules and information is ridethevine.com. Here are direct links to the new schedules for all VINE routes. Most adult fares are $1.50.

• System Map
• Fares and Passes
• Paratransit
• "Where's My Bus?" GPS locator

Intercity routes

• Route 10: Napa Valley College/Calistoga
• Route 11: Napa/Vallejo
• Route 20: Napa/Fairfield/Suisun (to start in spring, 2013)
• Route 25: Napa/Sonoma
• Route 29: Calistoga/El Cerrito del Norte BART

Napa city routes:

• Route 1: Browns Valley/Old Sonoma Road 
• Route 2: Napa Premium Outlets/Old Sonoma/Laurel
• Route 3: South Napa Marketplace
• Route 4: Shetler/South Napa Marketplace
• Route 5: Alta Heights
• Route 6: Redwood Park & Ride/Sutherland
• Route 7: Redwood Park & Ride/Jefferson
• Route 8: Downtown/Redwood Park & Ride

Community shuttles:

• American Canyon Transit
• Calistoga Shuttle
• St. Helena VINE
• Yountville Trolley

Vital stats: Soscol Gateway Transit Center, 625 Burnell St., Napa: (707) 259.8631, www.ridethevine.com, contact@nctpa.net.

About the changes: It's a whole new VINE: The municipal bus system serving Napa County has new schedules, fares and stops — as well as a new website — and is now operating, along with its parent agency, out of a brand-new building on Burnell Street east of downtown.

"A lot of us were here at 5:30 this morning," said Kate Miller Monday. Miller is executive director of the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency, which has moved out of its rented digs on Randolph Street and into offices above the new Soscol Gateway Transit Center on Burnell, which replaces the now-closed Pearl Street bus station.

Apart from some opening-day hiccups, like the fact the new NCTPA website was still displaying dummy text Monday afternoon, Miller said for the most part the switchover "went really well."

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