Effective
12/20/06
As
a publicly funded transportation
system, the Riverside Transit
Agency (RTA) is required to
strictly follow Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) laws
and regulations regarding
charter service.
Federal
transit law, 49 USC §5323(d)
and FTA Charter Service Regulation,
49 CFR Part 604 prohibits
recipients of federal financial
assistance from providing
charter service except under
strictly defined circumstances.
According
to the FTA, any service meeting
the following criteria is
considered charter or special
service if it can be provided
by able and willing private
transportation service companies:
- Temporary
or permanent custom transportation
service provided for a fixed
fee, including financial
remuneration and/or in-kind
trades, or at no cost
- Travels
on an itinerary and/or schedule
different from published
existing service to a specific
event or destination, which
is set by an external individual,
organization, group, association,
school, corporation, business
or government entity
- Custom
temporary or permanent deviation
of or addition to published
existing routing or timetables
including additional runs,
trippers and hours of service,
which is set by an external
individual, organization,
group, association, school,
corporation, business or
government entity
The
following are not considered
charter or special service:
Additional vehicles to accommodate
overflow passengers on existing
routes and timetables because
of special events or school
field trips, vehicles for
travel training by RTA personnel,
vehicles formally participating
as entries in parades, vehicles
used for emergency evacuation,
vehicles used for emergency
evacuation drills and seasonal
fixed routes open to the
general public and published
in the RTA Ride
Guide.
Therefore,
based on federal law and regulations,
RTA shall not utilize any
vehicles to operate charter
or special service.
All
questions regarding or requests
for charter or special service
should be directed to:
Riverside
Transit Agency
Attn:
Director of Marketing
P.O.
Box 59968
Riverside,
CA 92517-1968
951-565-5000
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