City Council

3.4 CONSIDER EXPANDING THE IRVINE CONNECT NEIGHBORHOOD\nSHUTTLE PROGRAM\nACTION:\n1) Continue the IrvineCONNECT Yale-Barranca route through Fiscal Year\n2024-25 and expand it north to run along Portola starting in July 2025\n(Expanded Yale-Barranca Route).\n2) Direct that staff assess and develop a budgetary plan to facilitate the\naddition of two new IrvineCONNECT routes, to include a Jamboree-UCI Route\nand a Barranca Link Route that would connect the Expanded Yale-Barranca\nRoute with the Jamboree-UCI Route, for implementation in Fiscal Year 2025-\n26.\n3) Direct the establishment of a Capital Improvement Project for construction\nof an additional 25 IrvineCONNECT bus stops and execute a contract with the\nbus operator for the expanded and new routes.\n4) Discontinue the three iShuttle Routes by June 30, 2025; transfer iShuttle\nvehicles and Proposition 116 funding (116 funds) to use on IrvineCONNECT\nservice.\n5) Direct that over the course of the next year, staff assess the viability of\ninstituting a fourth IrvineCONNECT route to link the Great Park area with the\nproposed expanded IrvineCONNECT system, including the viability of bonding\nagainst the City's existing 116 Transit Funding source.\n3.4