People Mover (Anchorage)

People Mover

Founded	July 1, 1974
Headquarters	3600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99507 (operations), 700 West Sixth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501 (customer service)
Locale	Anchorage, Alaska
Service area	Anchorage
Service type	bus service
Routes	15
Hubs	Dimond Center, Downtown, Eagle River, Muldoon, Providence Hospital
Fuel type	Diesel, Electric
Operator	Municipality of Anchorage
Website	www.peoplemover.org

For other uses of "People mover", see People mover (disambiguation).

The People Mover is the public transportation agency that serves metropolitan Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It is owned and operated by the Municipality of Anchorage, with service primarily within city limits as well as Eagle River.

Service

The People Mover bus system includes regular all-day service routes on many of the city's major streets as well as two routes with rush hour-only service (the #91 which serves Old Seward Highway south of the Dimond Center Mall and the #92 which runs nonstop from Downtown to Eagle River). Many routes terminate at the Downtown Transit Center, located at the southeast corner of 6th Avenue and H Street in Downtown Anchorage.

People Mover service for most routes within Anchorage begins at 6 or 7 am and ends at 9 or 10 pm, with some of the major routes running until 11 pm on weekdays (and the Route 40 to the airport and Spenard running until almost 2am on weekdays). On Saturdays, most of the all-day routes begin service at 8 am, and end at 7pm. On Sundays, routes end approximately 1 hour earlier.

In 2016, the City of Anchorage undertook a study to redesign the service with the aim of providing more frequent service without increasing its public transit budget. This resulted in a proposed plan by late November 2016 for more streamlined routes, with less off-tracking than previously, combined with 15-minute frequencies in the densest parts of the city; service to outlying communities would be curtailed. It was expected that a new schedule could be introduced as early as August 2017, but it actually ended up being implemented October 23rd, 2017. The previous system was designed in 2002, and most routes came once per hour.

Current Routes

As of May 13th, 2024:

Core Routes(Every 15 minutes during peak hours):

• 10: Downtown Transit Center - Muldoon Transit Hub via Northern Lights Boulevard.
• 20: Downtown Transit Center - ANMC Via Mountain View.
• 30: Downtown Transit Center - Muldoon Transit Hub via 15th Street and Debarr Road.
• 40: Downtown Transit Center - Ted Stevens International Airport via Spenard Road.
• 25: Downtown Transit Center - VA Clinic Via C Street, Tudor Road, and Muldoon Road.

Other Routes(Every 30 minutes during peak hours):

• 35: Downtown Transit Center - Dimond Center via Arctic Boulevard.
• 55: ANMC - Dimond Center via Lake Otis Parkway.
• 65: Ted Stevens International Airport - Dimond Center via Jewel Lake Road.
• 85: Downtown Transit Center - Huffman Business Park via Old Seward Highway. (60 minutes during peak hours)

Neighborhood Routes(Every 30 minutes during peak hours):

• 11: Downtown Transit Center - Fairview - Senior Center loop. (60 minutes during peak hours)
• 31: Muldoon Transit Hub - Mountain View - Russian Jack loop.
• 41: Downtown Transit Center - Government Hill loop.
• 51: Muldoon Transit Hub - Centennial Village via Muldoon Road.

Commuter Routes:

• 91: Downtown Transit Center - Eagle River Transit Center via Glenn Highway.

Transit fleet

Active roster

Fleet Number	Thumbnail	Year	Manufacturer	Model	Engine	Transmission	Notes
60251-60268		2008	NFI	D40LF	Cummins ISL		Replacements for 1995 units
60269-60283		2010	NFI	D40LFR	Cummins ISL9		Replacements for some 1998 series units
60284-60291		2011	NFI	D40LFR	Cummins ISL9
60292-60302		2013	NFI	D40LFR	Cummins ISL9