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Liberty Pierson Sculpture: Spirit of the Bay  Growing up in El Sobrante, Liberty Pierson always had an interest in art. She expressed her creativity in a variety of different mediums like graphic design, computer art, and photography. After high school, she moved East to study art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. However, her heart belonged in the Bay Area so after six years she moved back in 2014 and due to […]

Gene “Geneus1” Buban Peace 2.0 Originally from Alameda, raised in Union City, and now a Vallejo resident, Gene Buban dabbled in art his entire life. He gravitated to digital art, teaching himself on his home computer in the early 1980s. He continued through high school learning on his own and then moved to a more […]

Sophia Othman Peacock Feather Benches Sophia Othman did not take a conventional route to become an artist. Art and creativity were not encouraged by her family in her youth, unlike many artists who discover their love of art early on in their formative years that then develop and mature through practice and training. Sophia took […]

Leo Rodas Mosaic Medallions Beautiful Vallejo A native of Guatemala, Leo Rodas, and his family immigrated to the United States in 1971, when he was just 13 years old. He and his family settled in San Francisco, where he finished school. Leo’s love for art began long before he moved to the United States. His […]

SolTrans is committed to providing safe, reliable, courteous, efficient, and accessible transportation services that effectively link people, jobs, and communities. Part of our mission is working with all the Bay Area agencies to provide information regarding transit services schedule updates and tips for passengers. All 27 Bay Area agencies are collaborating to deliver services that […]

The first day of school is almost here! There is no right way to prepare for the return to in-person learning, especially after a year of online learning. It hasn’t been the smoothest ride, and we get that. To take some of the weight off your shoulders this year, using your Solano Community College (SCC) […]

There are many ways to pay your bus fare, SolTrans continues to accept paper passes, exact cash fare, Clipper Cards, and the Token Transit App. To reduce surface touch points on buses SolTrans strongly recommends using cash free or contactless payment fare options like Clipper and the Token Transit App. Clipper is regional an all-in-one transit card that […]

We continue discussing healthy transit practices and the precautions we’ve taken to ensure our passengers and operators are safe waiting for, boarding, riding and exiting our buses. This week we discuss face masks. The primary role of a face mask is to reduce the release of infectious particles into the air when someone speaks, coughs […]

As a reminder SolTrans is committed to the following policies and practices to build our passengers trust, we continue our journey discussing the precautions we’ve taken to ensure our passengers and operators are safe while boarding, on the bus, and exiting. Health officials recommend maintaining a safe distance from others to slow the spread of […]

SolTrans is committed to the following policies and practices to build our passengers trust. We begin our journey to healthy transportation with a disinfected and sanitized bus. Our maintenance team works daily to ensure the new safety procedures are followed and safe buses are on the road. We provide a service people depend on and […]