• Introduction
• Benefits
• Funding

Introduction
The Mid-City Rapid Bus project includes the design and implementation of a ten-mile, high-speed, limited-stop service between San Diego State University (SDSU) and downtown San Diego along El Cajon and Park Boulevards. The line will provide North Park, City Heights, and College area residents, students, and workers with a limited-stop, high-speed service in one of the key transit corridors in the region.

Mid-City Rapid Bus Route Map

The Rapid Bus project represents the initial step toward implementing a full Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service in this corridor, as envisioned by the Regional Transportation Plan. The Mid-City BRT project also is one of the Major Corridor projects included in the TransNet Extension Ordinance and Expenditure Plan approved by the voters in 2004. Rapid Bus services are designed to provide higher-speed alternatives to local bus services in key arterial corridors utilizing a range of lower cost signal priority treatments, improved station design, and limited station spacing to achieve faster travel times. Bus services can be upgraded to BRT over time through use.

Advanced planning and conceptual engineering work for the middle segment of the project (between Park Boulevard / University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard / College Avenue) have been completed. This includes development of a signal priority treatment plan, station designs, street improvements, and a small segment of transit-only lanes. This segment provides the best opportunity to implement signal priority, bus-only queue jump lanes, station upgrades, and to achieve significant transit travel time savings.

The Mid-City Rapid Bus Project - Environmental Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration and its Appendices were available for a 30-day public review and comment period through October 2, 2008.

An Integrated Rapid Bus System: Mid-City Rapid and the Future I-15 Bus Rapid Transit Project

SANDAG’s Regional Transportation Plan envisions an integrated rapid transit network. The Mid-City Rapid Bus route will connect to the I-15 Bus Rapid Transit Project, which in turn will link downtown and Mid-City to the job centers in Mira Mesa, Sabre Springs, Rancho Bernardo, and Escondido. Plans for the I-15 project include two stations in Mid-City, one each at the El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue ramps. Passengers will be able to easily transfer between the Mid-City Rapid and I-15 routes.