Bus Service Change Improvements

Effective February 9, 2025

The Bus Service Change Improvements provides a summary of the upcoming service improvements to OC Bus. This service change will provide minor schedule changes to improve service quality. Route adjustments will be made to Routes 89 and 177 to provide service to areas affected by the discontinuation of Routes 82 and 87.

• Schedule Adjustments: 26, 29, 37, 38, 47, 55, 59, 60, 64, 66, 71, 83, 89, 90, 91, 123, 129, 167, 177, 529, 543, 560
• Route Adjustments: 66, 89, 90, 167, 177
• Discontinued Routes: 82, 87

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Routes Details

Route 26
Weekdays: Add three new Eastbound trips between the Fullerton Transportation Center and California State University Fullerton at 6:55 am, 7:25 am and 7:55 am to meet Metrolink trains 703, 604 and 705.

Route 37
Sundays: Add two new am trips at 6:15 am Northbound and 6:05 am Southbound.

Route 47
Weekdays: Adjust trip times between 2:00 pm and 3:35 pm and add two Northbound pm trips beginning at Fairview and Arlington at 2:56 pm and 3:24 pm to better serve Costa Mesa High School.

Route 59
Weekdays: Adjust frequency during peak hours to every 20 or 30 minutes and late-night frequency to every 60 minutes.
Weekends: Adjust frequency every 60 minutes.

Route 60
Weekdays: Improve frequency during peak midday hours from every 24 minutes to every 20 minutes.

Route 66
All Days: Route no longer travels on campus; stop will be moved to Irvine Center Dr and Campus.

Route 71
Weekdays: Improve frequency during peak midday hours from every 50 minutes to every 45 minutes.

Route 82
All Days: Route will be discontinued. Sections of the discontinued route will now be served by Routes 89 and 177.

Route 83
All Days: Arriving and departing buses will wait 5 minutes between arrival and departure for better connections.

Route 87
All Days: Route will be discontinued. Sections of the discontinued route will now be served by Route 177.

Route 89

• All Days:
  • Add Route 82 segment east of Los Alisos Blvd.
  • Arriving and departing buses will wait 5 minutes between arrival and departure for better connections.
• Weekdays:
  • Improve frequency during peak hours from every 35 minutes to every 30 minutes.
• Weekends:
  • Improve frequency from every 65 or 70 minutes to every 60 minutes.

Route 90
All Days: Route no longer travels on campus; stop will be moved to Irvine Center Dr and Campus.

Route 91
All Days: Arriving and departing buses will wait 5 minutes between arrival and departure for better connections.

Route 123
Weekdays: Adjust schedules to better align with morning Metrolink trains at Anaheim Canyon Station.

Route 129
Weekends: Reduce frequency during peak midday hours from every 50 minutes to every 60 minutes.

Route 167
Weekdays: Route no longer travels on campus; stop will be moved to Irvine Center Dr and Campus.

Route 177

• Weekdays:
  • Extend Northbound route to Los Alisos and Mustang (Trabuco High School) to replace segment of discontinued Route 82.
  • Extend Southbound route to Niguel & Crown Valley to replace segment of discontinued Route 87.
  • Arriving and departing buses will wait 5 minutes between arrival and departure for better connections.
  • Reduce frequency from every 45 minutes to every 60 minutes.
• Weekends:
  • Saturdays, Route 177 only operates between Los Alisos & Mustang and Laguna Hills Transportation Center with no service south to Laguna Niguel.
  • Arriving and departing buses will wait 5 minutes between arrival and departure for better connections.
  • Improve frequency from every 84 minutes to every 60 minutes.

Route 560
Weekdays: Improve frequency from every 24 minutes to every 20 minutes during peak and midday hours.