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The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company that provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, [2] Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany, and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when it was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit. The Key System ...
At its inception, AC Transit purchased the mixed White, Mack, and GM "old-look" bus fleet from its predecessor, the Key System. The ex-Key System buses were repainted in "clownface" livery, featuring a predominantly white (upper half) and orange (lower front) color scheme with teal side stripes, and AC Transit adopted a "wing" logo featuring ...
AC Transit would continue to operate a mixed fleet of buses throughout the 1960s; the buses purchased from Key System started to be retired in 1969 (#1806 was the first diesel Old Look retired), [35] but were not fully retired until 1974 with the delivery of Flxible buses.
AC Transit bus routes are arranged in seven categories (six numbered, one lettered). Since its inception in 1960, AC Transit has used both numbers and letters to distinguish routes. Many Transbay rail lines were inherited from the Key System and converted to bus routes, and AC Transit continued to use letters to identify the routes. Many ...
AC Transit took over operation of the Key system's assets in October 1960. By then, the F's route had been established to run on Market Street in Oakland. [12] In September 1961, service was extended down Solano Avenue for evening and Saturday runs, [13] a move which was further applied to all trips starting in 1970. In 1973, some trips were ...
AC Transit took over operation of the Key System's assets in October 1960. The C line was extended to Highland and Magnolia on June 30, 1963. [9] Buses ceased serving the Transbay Terminal on August 7, 2010, and the San Francisco terminus was moved to the Temporary Transbay Terminal.
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AC Transit took over operation of the Key System's assets in October 1960. Express trips began utilizing the MacArthur Freeway starting on May 16, 1962. [11] The line would be rerouted to serve the Oakland Army Base between 1963 and 1976. Service was discontinued on September 14, 1986, by which time it was referred to as the B-2 Line.