TRANSPORTATION LINKS
Transit Options and Commuter Information
Bikestation
Thinking about riding your bike to work? Need a great place to store your bike that has locker room facilities? Check out the Bikestation located at the Granada Garage. Provides secure bicycle parking 24/7, showers, lockers, changing room, restroom, work stand, tools, public transit links nearby and local information.
Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District: (SB MTD)
Local Transportation Agency covering approximately 52 square miles in the southern area of Santa Barbara County, serving the communities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, Montecito, Summerland and Isla Vista.
Traffic Solutions
One stop shop for Santa Barbara County commuters. Carpool matching services, vanpools, guaranteed ride home program, transit options, contests and employer information.
Commuter Choice IRS Tax Incentive Page
This page has everything you need to know about tax incentives available for users of alternative transportation.
Southern California Rideshare
Provides information for commuters in Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange, and San Bernardino Counties. 1-800-COMMUTE.
San Luis Obispo Rideshare
Provides information for commuters in San Luis Obispo County. (805) 541-227.
Long Distance Buses
Clean Air Express
The fleet’s comfortable motor coaches provide daily round trip bus service from Santa Maria, Lompoc and Buellton to Santa Barbara.
Valley Express
Weekday service between Solvang/Buellton and Santa Barbara operated by SB MTD.
VISTA - Coastal Express
Providing daily round trip bus service between Ventura, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, and Goleta.
Bicycle Education
Street Skills
Learn to ride safely on Santa Barbara streets taught by certified instructors. Great course for adults, teens, and employees! Reserve a seat for this course online.
BiciCentro
Santa Barbara’s bike kitchen. BiciCentro is a low to no cost bike program where community members learn to work on bikes in a comfortable and fun setting. Learn to rebuild good, used bikes. All ages welcome!
Local Organizations
COAST for Sustainable Transportation
The Coalition for Sustainable Transportation works towards a vision of well-planned communities that encourage walking, bicycling and transit for access to all daily needs.
Community Environmental Council
The CEC is a well-established environmental nonprofit focused exclusively on energy efficiency and renewables, alternative transportation, and climate change.
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
A California advocacy and resource organization that promotes bicycling for safe transportation and recreation in Santa Barbara County. Check our site to see what’s happening. Discover how to enjoy local bicycling more and find out what we’re doing to improve the quality of life in our community.
Santa Barbara Car Free:
This project, spearheaded by the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District, provides information geared towards visitors to the Santa Barbara area. This site will show you how to “enjoy some car free carefree time in Santa Barbara” and take a vacation from your car!
Sustainability Project
The Sustainability Project of Santa Barbara is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire change in the built environment of our region in order to improve quality of life, in harmony with nature, for this and future generations.
Regional Links
Santa Barbara County Association of Governments ( SBCAG )
Distributes local, state, and federal transportation funds and acts as a forum for addressing regional and multi-jurisdictional issues.
Ventura County Transportation Commission
The agency that brings you the Coastal Express and more!
Other Educational Resources
Complete Streets Coalition
The streets of our cities and towns are an important part of the livability of our communities. They ought to be for everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of our streets are designed only for speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic jams.
Safe Routes to School
SRTS programs use a variety of education, engineering and enforcement strategies that help make routes safer for children to walk and bicycle to school and encouragement strategies to entice more children to walk and bicycle. They have grown popular in recent years in response to problems created by an expanding built environment, a growing reliance on motor vehicles for student transportation and with the more recent development of federal and state funding of SRTS programs.
Online TDM Encyclopedia:
If you’re looking for information about reducing vehicle trips, you’ll find it at this site developed by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute.