Founded 1998 | Routes 12 | |
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Parent Napa Valley Transportation Authority Headquarters 625 Burnell Street, Napa, CA Service area Napa County, California Service type bus service, paratransit | ||
VINE Transit (an acronym for Valley Intercity Neighborhood Express.) is a public transportation service in Napa County, California, United States; it is managed under the Napa Valley Transportation Authority and operated by Transdev. The system offers extensive service throughout the County along with providing connections to other public transportation systems in adjacent counties.
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Service coverage
The Napa VINE provides services to the following cities, towns, and communities:
Napa County:
Solano County:
Sonoma County:
Contra Costa County
Schedules
All Napa VINE services do not operate on the following holidays:
However, these services operate on Saturday schedules on other holidays, including:
On other holidays (i.e. Columbus Day, Veterans Day), trips operate on normal weekday schedules.
Fleet and livery
The VINE Transit-branded fleet is made of the following types of coaches
Active
Discontinued
Newer buses are grey colored with the current VINE logo displayed along the middle of the bus. Most buses are painted white with the previous VINE logo printed on the side of the bus. However, the DE40LF buses offer artwork promoting VINE's environmentally friendly features; these buses were also wrapped to promote Spare the Air. In addition, a number of Gillig Phantom buses exclusive to Route 21, are wrapped in advertising promoting that route. Previously, the livery was simply a green bordered red horizontal stripe with "City of Napa" written near the front in white letters.
VINE Go and Calistoga Shuttle use Ford-based ElDorado National Aerolite cutaways.
Yountville Trolley features a Hometown Trolley Mainstreet tourist trolley that is painted green on red.
Routes
VINE Transit in Napa operates a fixed-route system of eight local and three regional routes which provides connections between other bus systems and BART. Unless noted, Sunday service is not provided.
Shuttle brands
VINE manages and operates a number of deviated fixed-route or dial-a-ride bus services in other cities and towns using different brand names.
Fares, transfers, and passes
To board a VINE bus, a passenger must either present a pass, Clipper Card, transfer slip or pay a cash fare. VINE offers discount passes in 31-day and 20-ride formats. A 31-day pass offers unlimited rides for 31 consecutive days from the first day of use on regular routes (1 through 25); there are two separate types of 31-day passes for Route 29. For 20-ride passes, one use is used to board a regular bus, while uses differ on Routes 29 and 21. Transfer slips are issued to passengers who pay cash fare or use punch passes. They are used to transfer from one regular route to another without the need to pay an additional fare or punch; however a transfer is not valid between Routes 10 and 11. They can be used on express buses for an additional charge. Since 2014, Clipper Cards are accepted and various 31-day passes can be loaded onto the card. If nothing is presented, a cash fare must be paid. Below lists the fare and pass prices for routes 1 through 11, in USD.
Route 29 makes use of a different fare and pass system, where costs are determined on a passenger's boarding location and destination. VINE also provides day passes for unlimited rides for the day the pass indicates.
St. Helena VINE's fares depend on whether a passenger's destination deviates from the fixed route.
Since American Canyon Transit also utilizes a deviated fixed-route system, its fares are also different if one deviates from the published route. However, only seniors and disabled passengers are allowed to deviate.
All cash fares on Calistoga Shuttle are one dollar. In addition to this fare, special $10 and $20 punch passes are available. The Yountville Trolley is free-of-charge to ride.