MTD Santa Barbara
By the Santa Barbara MTD
[On Thursday], community leaders came together on a bus ride and with a press conference to celebrate this week’s launch of a new express bus service—MTD’s Line 19x.
The Line 19x (Carpinteria/SBCC Express) provides peak weekday service to Carpinteria, Santa Barbara’s Eastside, and Santa Barbara City College. This service is financially supported by Measure A as part of the Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project to help alleviate congestion and improve the flow of traffic during construction.
Several community leaders boarded the Line 19x bus in Carpinteria and Santa Barbara, and were joined by several others at the main SBCC bus stop on Cliff Drive for a brief press conference.
Speakers included Santa Barbara MTD General Manager Jerry Estrada, SBCAG Executive Director Marjie KIRN, Carpinteria Mayor Al Clark, First District County Supervisor Das Williams, and SBCC Board of Trustees President Jonathan Abboud. Additional guests including Carpinteria and Santa Barbara City Councilmembers, members of MTD Board of Directors, and SBCC leadership, including new Superintendent and President Erika Endrijonas.
“Connecting these important destinations to each other fulfills several requests that we’ve heard for many years,” said Jerry Estrada, General Manager of Santa Barbara MTD. “With the 19x we’ve brought back peak express bus service back between Carpinteria and Santa Barbara, and we now provide direct service to SBCC for both Eastside residents and Carpinterians.”
“We can reduce traffic congestion by trying Santa Barbara MTD’s new direct service between Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, and SBCC,” said Marjie KIRN, Executive Director of SBCAG. “The new 19x service is made possible because of the investment of Highway 101 Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project funds. This investment helps make the community vision for a sustainable future a reality. We ask the public to try this transportation option and experience the benefits first-hand.”
“We are thrilled with the launch of the 19x, a new express route that can help put an end to the soul sucking traffic between Carpinteria and Santa Barbara City College,” said Jonathan Abboud, President of SBCC Board of Trustees. “This is big win for our neighbors, SBCC students and employees, and the environment.”
Details about the Line 19x route and schedule can be found here.
Great. More big empty buses blocking the street. MTD down size your buses for the volume of riders. Absolutely worthless organization run by pilfers.
First in line, we have Carpinteria’s District 1 SBCC Trustee Charlotte Gullap-Moore, who lives in Montecito. She’s smiling because she knows she won’t be catching MTD’s Bus 19X to Board of Trustee Meetings.
Kew, So what if she no longer needs to use public transport? I took SB MTD to work and school for almost 6 years, including catching it around 6:30 a.m. for work, and now I’m well-off. People need bus service, it’s that simple. Even if you see one empty.
Line 19x has seven stops. None in Montecito. She lives in Montecito. She’d have to take the outbound Line 20 from a stop in Montecito towards Carpinteria, to then transfer to a Line 19x, SBCC inbound bus. See the schedule, Line 19x services SBCC students and employees three departure times a day (M-F) in one direction.
I fully support mass transit. But hey, get real – the Carp bus is guaranteed to be late until the freeway gets done. No one with a brain will want to ride that.
That’s funny! Googled her, and she’s runs with a whole lot of capital letters behind her name, most of which no one’s ever heard of. She’s a nurse practitioner basically. NP.
Tell you what, BASIC. I got a couple friends working at UCSB in “your” department and I’m going to ask around so we can laugh at you, even more.
BASIC – Dude you can’t honestly be serious, are you? So, you’re publicly shaming someone on their credentials and then degrading her profession? Why did you “Google her?” How is that relevant to her work with the MTD? Do the nurses who work with you know how lowly you think of them and discourage their work with the community?
https://studenthealth.sa.ucsb.edu/meet-our-medical-providers
Maybe you should reach out to your “co-workers” and let them know what you think of NPs.
Freakin’ pathetic, man. You’re low, really low.
Fake Doctor condescending about a real nurse. LOLZ
Capt’n doc sounds jealous? The very first “ca;ital letters…” is not NP it’s actually DNP so yes she’s earned a “Doctorate” as well as “Master of Science” (w/honors!), of course you knew that but since she’s from “Philly” that slander/demeaning is ok? :
https://www.sbcc.edu/boardoftrustees/charlotte-gullap-moore.php
…typical just what was “expected”…
“She attended Atlantic Community College for two years before transferring to Temple University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and, years later, a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with honors – including induction into Sigma Theta Tau | Kappa Chi Chapter. Most recently, Dr. Gullap-Moore received her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) – Population Health Leadership from the University of San Francisco.”
Basic disgusts yet again. Remember, this is the filth who attacked Jerry Roberts for wearing a mask because he ASSumed that Roberts was alone in the room.
She’s *Dr.* Gullap-Moore, which the lowest of the low *had* to know if he googled her and found her SBCC page. And of course she doesn’t “run with a whole lot of capital letters behind her name”, those are *titles she earned*.
Yeah, you guys are right – that was uncalled for. Lame comment on my part. I’ll try and stay on topic.
“Lame comment on my part.”
AS ALWAYS, so why stop now?
I really wish that folks like you would move to regions of the country with policies more to your liking–and in your case particularly where your professional skills are needed: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369
Basic, there’s hope for you yet.
Fare revenue: $2,500,000
Expenses $28,000,000
Average Ridership per mile is 2 riders per mile (not including the driver) The bus is much larger than a car and gets less gas mileage, so two riders in a huge bus per mile on average? Doesn’t it seem likely to anyone that the MTD bus uses more fuel per mile than an toyota celica?
https://sbmtd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210601-Item-7-Operating-Capital-Budget.pdf
This isn’t a great deal. Taxpayer money $25.5M for 2 riders on average per mile in a giant fuel guzzling bus.
If average ridership is less than 2 per mile in a huge bus, then the system needs to be streamlined to be carbon efficient? The ridership numbers work out for the UCSB and SBCC lines and a couple others into downtown, but they do not seem to offset the carbon blasted into the air per mile