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The All Nighter is a night bus service network in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Portions of the service shadow the rapid transit and commuter rail services of BART and Caltrain, which are the major rail services between San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, and San Jose. BART and Caltrain do not operate owl service so that track maintenance can be performed; the All Nighter network helps fill this service gap. The slogan is, "''Now transit stays up as late as you do!''" ==History== The service launched initially in December 2005, and fully launched in March 2006.〔(New Transbay Service To Begin March 19 )〕 BART and Caltrain riders who previously faced uncoordinated substitute bus transit service after midnight can now take advantage of the coordinated All Nighter bus service. The service is operated by AC Transit, Muni, SamTrans, and VTA. The agencies have a network of timed transfers, and half-hourly weekend service was implemented between downtown San Francisco and several BART stations along the Richmond and Fremont lines. AC Transit Route 800 operates along Market Street in San Francisco; this is the first AC Transit route to operate anywhere within San Francisco beyond the Transbay Terminal. The service is funded by Regional Measure 2, which voters approved in 2004. The measure increased tolls by $1 on state-owned bridges in the Bay Area. The All Nighter service initially included County Connection Route 820, which operated between downtown Oakland and central Contra Costa County. This route was discontinued in December 2008 due to budgetary problems and low ridership.〔(County Connection to cut bus service, raise fares )〕〔(All Nighter bus route ending )〕 It also included WHEELS Route 810, which operated between Bay Fair BART in San Leandro and Livermore via Dublin/Pleasanton BART. This route was discontinued in June 2009 due to budgetary problems and low ridership. Additional service from Bay Fair BART to Castro Valley BART via AC Transit Route 880 was discontinued in March 2010 due to that agency's budgetary problems. Overnight transit service throughout the Bay Area predated the All Nighter initiative. Overnight service has consistently operated within San Francisco, but service outside of San Francisco has been volatile, rising and falling with the financial fortunes of the various transit agencies. AC Transit's long-standing overnight service was completely withdrawn in 1996〔http://www.actransit.org/pdf/planning_focus/planning_focus_122.pdf〕 and then restored and expanded in later years. SamTrans introduced overnight service to SFO in 2001〔(SFO - San Francisco International Airport )〕 and maintained it with a subsidy from the airport starting in 2003. VTA introduced overnight service on Route 22〔(Route 22 Website )〕 and the light rail network, but later withdrew overnight light rail service due to financial difficulties. Golden Gate Transit, which had long offered an essentially 24-hour service on Route 80 to Santa Rosa, reduced the span of service in 2003. 24-hour service was one of the issues considered in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Lifeline study, about the transportation needs of economically disadvantaged individuals.〔(Lifeline Transit_cover.qx )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All Nighter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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