Maintain our BCT bus fleet in a state of good repair and improve bus on-time performance by replacing one (1) fixed route bus in our BCT fleet that has exceeded its useful life of 10 years and/or…

The City of Redondo Beach received a $775,210 Formula Grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507), awarded on August 15, 2025, with a completion date of October 30, 2026. This award funds the procurement and delivery of one replacement fixed-route bus for the Redondo Beach City Transit (BCT) fleet to replace an existing vehicle that has exceeded its useful life of 10 years and/or 300,000 miles in accordance with the City's Transit Asset Management Plan. The City will obtain City Council approval for the bus procurement, issue a purchase order to the selected vendor, and conduct pre-delivery and post-delivery inspections at the BCT bus yard located at 1519 Kingsdale Avenue in Redondo Beach, California.

The expected outcomes of this award are to maintain the BCT bus fleet in a state of good repair, improve bus on-time performance, and sustain service reliability for the traveling public. The intended beneficiaries include local residents, visitors, and tourists within Redondo Beach, as well as patrons utilizing fixed-route service to partner cities including Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and El Segundo, plus riders transferring from other regional transit systems. No subrecipient subawards are anticipated under this grant.

Purpose

The purpose of this award is to maintain our BCT bus fleet in a state of good repair and improve bus on-time performance by replacing one (1) fixed route bus in our BCT fleet that has exceeded its useful life of 10 years and/or 300000 miles per the city of redondo beach transit asset management plan.

Activities

Staff will request approval from the redondo beach city council for the bus procurement. After the city council authorizes the procurement a purchase order will be issued to the vendor to place an order for buses. A bus inspection will be conducted prior to delivery of the buses and at post-delivery when the buses are received at the redondo beach bus yard located at 1519 kingsdale avenue redondo beach CA.

Expected outcomes

Maintain the BCT bus fleet in a state of good repair and improve bus on-time performance and maintain a good service reliability for the ridership.

Intended beneficiaries

Ridership includes local residents visitors and tourists traveling within the city of redondo beach. The city also provides fixed-route service to its partner cities including hermosa beach manhattan beach and EL segundo. IT also includes patrons at the redondo beach transit center and from other transit systems including LOS angeles county metro g-trans (gardena) torrance transit city of lawndale and access services which provides ADA-compliant paratransit service on behalf of beach cities transit.

Subrecipient activities

The recipient does not intend to subaward funds.