SANDAG South Bay Bus Maintenance Facility

Vision

The previous South Bay Bus Maintenance Facility, built in 1995, had limited capacity to maneuver buses and perform required fuel, service, and operational tasks. The Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) proposed to buy an adjacent parcel of land to allow the facility to expand its fleet maintenance abilities.

The project expanded the South Bay Bus Maintenance Facility into a larger and more functional bus maintenance and operations base. The 10.6-acre site features a new administration building, a new high bay bus maintenance building, renovations to an existing maintenance building, a new bus wash facility and additional bus parking.

The new administration building is a 16,000 s.f. two-story building that includes administrative and driver support areas and houses the dispatching room, training areas, and offices. The bus maintenance and parts warehouse facility is a new 50,000 s.f., one-story building which maintains and services the buses.

The expansion and reconfiguration of the site increases site capacity from 174 buses to 240 buses, including new South Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses. The high-capacity bus wash uses a reclaimed water system and is able to wash 250 buses every night – three times the amount of the previous facility. The expanded site also accommodates all service trucks, relief cars, and supervisor and staff vehicles.