VINE Transit

Valley Intercity Neighborhood Express (VINE) Transit

VINE Transit bus parked at Vallejo Station
Parent	Napa County Transportation & Planning Agency
Founded	1998
Headquarters	625 Burnell Street, Napa, CA
Service area	Napa County, California
Service type	bus service, paratransit
Routes	12
Hubs	3
Stations	1
Operator	Veolia Transportation
Website	www.ridethevine.com

VINE Transit (an acronym for Valley Intercity Neighborhood Express.) is a public transportation service in Napa County, California, USA; it is managed under the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency and operated by Veolia Transportation. The system offers extensive service throughout the County along with providing connections to other public transportation systems in adjacent counties.

Service coverage

The Napa VINE provides services to the following cities, towns, and communities:

Napa County:

• American Canyon
• Napa
• Yountville
• Oakville
• Rutherford
• St. Helena
• Calistoga

Solano County:

• Vallejo
• Fairfield
• Suisun

Sonoma County:

• Sonoma

Contra Costa County

• El Cerrito

Schedules

All Napa VINE services do not operate on the following holidays:

• New Year's Day
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day (July 4)
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas
• if Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on a Sunday

However, these services operate on Saturday schedules on other holidays, including:

• President's Day
• Day after Thanksgiving
• Christmas Eve
• New Year's Eve

On other holidays (i.e. Columbus Day, Veterans Day), trips operate on normal weekday schedules.

Fleet and livery

DE40LF displaying Spare the Air advertising

The VINE Transit-branded fleet is made of the following types of coaches

Active

• New Flyer Industries Diesel-electric hybrid 35' Restyled low-floor (DE35LFR) and Diesel-electric 40' low-floor (DE40LF)
• Gillig Phantom 35' and 40'
• Chevrolet 3500-based Arboc Spirit of Mobility cutaway
• ElDorado National Axess 35' and 40'

Discontinued

• Rapid Transit Series RTS-03 (phased out in early 2013)
• Orion International Orion V 40'

Most buses are painted white with the 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 once exclusive to Route 29 were 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.

Route	Destination	Service Notes
1	Browns Valley
2	Outlets / Old Sonoma / Laurel
3	South Napa Marketplace / Coombs
4	Shetler / South Napa Marketplace
5	Alta Heights
6	Redwood Park and Ride / Sutherland
7	Jefferson / Salvador
8	Downtown / Redwood Park and Ride
10	Napa Valley College / Calistoga	Sunday Service Provided
11	Napa / Vallejo	Sunday Service Provided
21	Napa / Fairfield / Suisun City
25	Napa / Sonoma
29	El Cerrito Del Norte BART	Express route, subject to additional fares. Monday-Friday service only.

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.

• American Canyon Transit (ACT) is a deviated fixed-route service in American Canyon that operates two routes; one for peak service and another for normal service. ACT connects with SolTrans Route 1, and VINE Routes 11 and 29.
• Calistoga Shuttle is an on-demand dial-a-ride service that operates within Calistoga
• St. Helena VINE is a deviated fixed route service that operates a route within the city of St. Helena. It connects to VINE Routes 10 and 29.
• Yountville Trolley is a deviated fixed route service that operates a north-south route in the city of Yountville. It connects to VINE Routes 10 and 29.

Fares, transfers, and passes

To board a VINE bus, a passenger must either present a pass, 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. If no pass or transfer is presented, a cash fare must be paid. Below lists the fare and pass prices for routes 1 through 11, in USD.

VINE Transit fare chart

Fare type	Punch Pass	31-day Pass	Cash fare
Adults (age 19-64)	$27.50	$48.00	$1.50
Youth (age 6-18)	$20.00	$33.00	$1.00
Senior (age 65+)/Disabled/ Medicare Cardholder	$13.00	$24.00	$0.75
Seniors age 90+ with Lifetime Pass/Children under 5 years	Free (up to two children .50 for each additional)

• Route 25 fares are $1.50 for all fare types, however local passes can be used on the route.

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.

VINE Route 29 Commuter Express fare chart

Fare type	Punch Pass	Day Pass	31-day Pass	31-day BART Pass	Cash fare to Vallejo	Cash fare to El Cerrito
Adults (age 19-64)	$27.50	$5.00	$60.00	$120.00	$3.25	$5.50
Youth (age 6-18)	$20.00	$3.00	$56.00	$112.00	$3.25	$5.50
Senior (age 65+)/Disabled/ Medicare Cardholder	$13.00	$2.50	$40.00	$80.00	$3.25	$5.50
Seniors age 90+ with Lifetime Pass/Children under 5 years	Free (up to two children .50 for each additional)

St. Helena VINE's fares depend on whether a passenger's destination deviates from the fixed route.

St. Helena VINE Fare Chart

Fare type	Cash fare	Deviated fare
Adults (age 19-64)	$0.50	$1.00*
Youth (age 6-18) / Seniors (age 65+)/ Disabled	Free	$0.50*

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.

American Canyon Transit fare chart

Fare type	Cash fare	Deviated fare
Adults (age 19-64)	$1.00	N/A
Students (age 6-18)Seniors (age 65+)/Disabled	$0.50	N/A
Seniors (age 65+)/ Disabled	$0.50	$1.00

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.

External links

• Official website