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Introduction

On this blog post on AntSol Travel, Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN), the resort area focused transportation agency that is aimed to get people from Anaheim hotels & the Toy Story Parking Lot to Disneyland, is winding down operations due to high cost of maintaining this interestingly small system that was drowning in debt with a deficit a tune of $730,000 a month at the beginning of the fiscal year and no one can save it. So what is left of ATN, the Anaheim Resort Transportation shuttles from the hotels, Toy Story Parking Lot, and even Anaheim Canyon Metrolink Station to Disneyland will end service on March 31, 2026. Fellow transit & infrastructure YouTuber, DJPetesake invited me along to give him pointers & information about this dying transit system on the remaining routes he has not tried yet. All that & more, next on AntSol Travel! Check out the video version of the blog post below.

I got most of the historic information all from ATN’s services from their 2026 Fiscal Budget Transmittal or look at the PDF that uploaded below. You will see how dire their situation was before everything was before it wind down. 

AI & Research Disclaimers

Please note that most articles cited are from the Orange County Register. They do have a paywall past a certain numbers of articles read.

Artificial Intelligence is minimally used in the production of this blog post. It only have been used for the post’s grammar edits, title, and excerpt with Jetpack AI. At AntSol Travel, we want AI to mainly to used to help refine the creative process when it comes to the editing portion of the process. AI should not be the core part creative process.

History of ATN Services

Pre Anaheim Transposition Network Era: 1955 to 1995

Disneyland Park opened by Walt Disney in 1955 to bring his movies & TV shows to life on the former citrus fields of Anaheim off of Interstate 5 that was still under construction at the time, off of Harbor Boulevard exit. However, he did not have enough money at the time to buy adjacent land before many savvy entrepreneurs bought nearby plots of fields to capitalize on Disneyland’s success to build hotels & restaurants along the adjacent streets of Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue. 

The city of Anaheim took advantage of the tourism industry by building the Anaheim Convention Center (ACC) in 1967 with several expansions of the decades to the modern 1.8 million square feet that is a mile from Disneyland’s Harbor entrance. The adjacent Marriott and Hilton hotels were opened in time before the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics that hosted wrestling at the ACC.

Both hotels captured conventioneers who want to go to Disneyland after a long day of conventions, or family tagging along that went to the parks while the working parent is at the convention. This led both the Marriott, Hilton, and many other hotels to host their own trams to Disneyland since not everyone can make the mile or want to do the mile walk to the park. 

Anaheim Transportation Network Beginning & Pre-COVID Era: 1995 to 2020 

Anaheim Transportation Network was formed in 1995 to prepare a new bus system to transport resort area guests from their hotels to Disneyland that is a uniquely independent non profit with funding from fare box revenue of $4 per way or $6 for a day pass, various grants including the now short lived ART After Hours shuttle for clean air commute at night, and assessments to hotels & businesses that use their services that is capped to 5% rate increase.

Business that contribute to the assessments include hotels & businesses that use the fixed route bus service, the City of Anaheim, businesses in Center City (downtown Anaheim) for the Free Rides Around the Neighborhood (FRAN), Los Angeles Angels baseball team, Anaheim Ducks hockey team, and more. The City of Anaheim only contributes to the funds, not wholly owns the agency as most municipalities or county owned transit agencies. Most major companies has a director on the ATN’s board of directors that dictate the overall operations of the agency.

Anaheim Resort Transportation (ART) is the core of the network with fixed bus routes from Anaheim hotels to Disneyland in 2002. Yes, it took them seven years to launch the service. Over the last twenty four years, added routes from Disneyland to Garden Grove & Orange in 2003, the Grove District & Harbor lines, and Manchester lines to Orange. 

Anaheim train station, originally at Katella & Howell got a route in 2008 to Disneyland Resort, which later moved to the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) with an ATN store & info desk, in 2014. The route is called the Sports Complex Line 15 since the ARTIC sits between Honda Center & Angel Stadium. 

ART bus service for the 20 Toy Story Line started in 2010 to shuttle Disneyland Resort guests from the Toy Story Parking Lot to the Disneyland bus bays on the east side of the parks off of Harbor Blvd. 

To add more commuter options for resort area & downtown Anaheim employees, a service was added to Anaheim Canyon Metrolink station in 2011 that serves the commuters from Riverside County to Orange County on the Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange County line, the route is now the 17 line. Due to the morning & evening commute hours of the 17 line schedule, I have not been on this route before. I did bike to the station before when I took the photo of the station & train photo above. Since it was mid day, not connecting ART Bus. 

Along with lines were added in 2011 to the city of Santa Ana for Bowers Museum & the Discovery Cube, and Buena Park for Knott’s Berry Farm & Medieval Times. They added Costa Mesa in 2015 for the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and South Coast Plaza Mall.

In 2019, added the Free Rides Around the Neighborhood (FRAN) that had free rides around City Center (downtown) Anaheim, funded by assessment fees to businesses around the area. 

COVID & Post COVID Era: March 2020 to May 2025

Of course, everything came crashing down when COVID 2020 closures happened but kept afloat with COVID era funding via CARES Act Transit Relief Package, various loans to keep 11 of 49 staff on payroll for essential services, $500,000 in Business Interruption Insurance, and more. Totaling $950,00 in funding relief.

Disneyland reopened on April 30, 2021 for the first time in the March 2020 closures. I could not find when ART bus route were fully back in service.

I moved down from the San Francisco Bay Area in September of that year & got an immediate on the spot job offer for my current hotel that has ART bus services. ART buses were fully operational by then, and I promptly got familiar with the ATN’s system. By then, ART service had been permanently cancelled for the Buena Park, Santa Ana, and Costa Mesa routes. 

In 2022, ATN launched Everybody Ventures Everywhere (EVE) with shuttle service with dedicated vans or 30 ft. bus from Anaheim Resort area to John Wayne Santa Ana Airport (SNA) for only $15 a person, and is great service to get from the airport to the hotel. However, if the shuttle is on the other side of the system, you will have to wait a bit. 

In April 2024, to cut down on empty bus trips, ATN implemented combined routes for routes with similar routing that are combined in the late morning to early evening.

The only route that was not combined was Grand Plaza Line 5 that services the hotel at the Anaheim Convention Center such as the over thousand guest rooms at the Anaheim Marriott & over 1,500 room Hilton Anaheim. I wrote a letter to the board of directors about the situation and they were able to keep the Grand Plaza route independent from the Grove Line 3 & Harbor Line 4!

A night owl service on-demand was funded back in November 2024 with Federal Appropriations Community Project Funding (CPF) initiative that started in the latter half of 2025 as ART After Dark for late hour event & hospitality employees to get back home safely. 

City of Anaheim has Senior Wheels senior transportation program for senior services shuttle around town cofunded by Anaheim & OCTA tax funds, and operated by ATN. 

Bus operators are contracted via Parking Company of America with a union represented by Teamsters Local 952 with a bus operator wage of $25 an hour per the budget transmission. 

Looming Deficit & Wind Down of ATN Services: May 2025 to March 2026

In May 2025, Anaheim Transportation Network announced that they were running a huge deficit of $730,000 a month with 70% of their expenses just going to labor due to the $25 an hour wage. ATN planned to either get funding from Anaheim Tourism Improvement District (ATID) funds from ATID hotel fees or a take over from the City of Anaheim. However, options failed due to the high monthly deficit that neither wanted to take on, so some costs had to be cut.  

As a cost saving measure, EVE & FRAN were preemptively cut on November 29, 2025 before the vote to wind down service, stated as a “temporary/seasonal pause” this is now permanent. 

On January 29, 2026, the Anaheim Transportation Network’s board of directors voted to end ATN services and wind down the service by March 31, 2026 due to high amount of deficit costs that no one could save. This sent everyone reeling about the future of Anaheim Transportation Network and if & who will take over bus services. 

Disney has a plan for the Toy Story Parking Lot as they will get a new shuttle operator that will provide the service and try to make the switch seem less as possible at the end of ATN service on March 31. I am sure other hotels are working on a plan for their own contracted shuttles. 

One project that will definitely be on hold was Advancing Neighborhood Networks for All (ANNA) was a project to build a dedicated transit connector down Katella would end as well. 

There have also been plans for an aerial gondola system along Katalla, which was put out for public feedback back in September 2025 by Swyft Cities, a company that has been attempting to put an aerial gondola system in the Great Park in Irvine since March 2025. 

Lack of New Transit Funding Also Doom Other Transit Agencies (Cut For Time In The Video)

Many other transit agencies could shrink or collapse like ATN if they don’t get proper tax funding & pre-COVID passenger count? Here are two examples in the news while I was in the research phase of the blog that hit close to me in California.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) serves tons of commuters & leisure passengers around the San Francisco Bay Area to many destinations by transit, and not deal with traffic since 1972 with 143 miles of track & two airport connections to Oakland & San Francisco International Airports. Still, if a new tax bill won’t pass, a fraction or even the whole system will close, just like Anaheim Transportation Network. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) & many of the other agencies in the area are suffering from deficits as well, with BART running a $376 million deficit due to much less ridership since the start of COVID closures in March 2020.

Many companies such as my dad’s engineering firm went remote for the first two years and then moved to hybrid of two days in office a week & the other three remote days. This lessened the amount of passenger count per day & revenue for BART due to that.

All the Bay Area transit agencies are betting on a half cent tax measure to help bring additional funding. If it fails, agencies could face drastic budget cuts, for BART, means increase fares & parking fees, cutting 1,200 jobs, closing over ten stations & train lines that relate to the stations closed. Making it into a state won’t be useful for the people who need it, and residents & city councils of the potentially affected cities were displeased by BART that station closures would be even a possibility due to longer commutes & stress addon if closed. 

For now, Governor Gavin Newsom has allocated a $590 million loan that would be paid off with the if passed tax to cover operational costs for BART, Caltrain commuter train along the Peninsula of the bay, AC Transit bus service in Alameda County, and MUNI bus & rail service in San Francisco. At worst if the tax does not pass, agencies would suffer the same fate as Anaheim Transportation Network, the whole system folds. 

San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System (MTS)

Measures to fund San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) kept being voted down as well, putting MTS and their parent planning agency, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), planning less light rail, more bus rapid transit (BRT), in an example of shrinking expectations due to deficits. With their budget slashed from $163 billion to $125 billion to operate the next quarter century, the planned trolley line will be pushed off into the farther future, spending money to improve highways for general highway driving & add more SDMTS Rapid lines in the paid Express Lanes, adding more bike lanes & trails, plans by passing the crumbling Del Mar Bluffs, and covering operational costs of SDMTS & North County Transit District. 

Rapid routes are questionable as they are going to be highway running such as Rapid 235 from Escondido to Downtown San Diego, or just limited stops such as the Rapid 215 from San Diego State to Downtown via surface streets. Both methods are not as effective as a regularly running light rail line that has more capacity & frequency than a bus. 

Plans call for completing bikeways such as gaps in the Coastal Rail Trail that will eventually fully connect via bike from Oceanside to Downtown San Diego. More local micro transit services, such as NCTD+ for clean last mile drive from the station to flexible destinations. Finally, the track realignment to move tracks inland & tunnel away from the crumbling Del Mar Bluffs.  

SDMTS is also doing surveys of proposed fare hikes with one way increasing from $2.50 to $3 or $3.50. Days pass from $6 to $7 or $8. Monthly pass from $72 to $90 or $100. The rates are getting to ATN high rate territory of $4 one way, at least MTS is transferable for two hours. However, these fare hikes are to help over SDMTS’ huge deficit, that would help maintain service levels, if rates are the same, cut service levels. I am okay with raising one day & day passes so casual transit users are not too much, but it could be a bit expensive for people who depend on monthly passes for regular transit rides.

The fall of ATN is warning that if funding & managing costs is not done properly, any transit system can suffer huge cuts or just shut down from massive deficits. No one wants that to happen, except people who only want cars to be stuck in bad traffic forever.

Dilemma of Ending ATN Services & Alternative Options

I work at one of the hotels served by ART shuttles that are a bit of a distance to walk to Disneyland, and ART shutting down is going to hit us hard for Disneyland only guests. For some, it is a deciding factor for guests to stay with us with the ART shuttle for easy & consistent shuttle. However, with the end of ART and management not sure what to do next, is making my hotel coworkers & me not sure what to tell our guests who are planning their stays past March. Hotels would either have their own hotel staffed shuttle which the Candy Cane Inn does, or contract with a parking company for shuttles that the Hyatt Regency Orange County does. At worst, no shuttle, and we can only recommend rideshare companies like Uber & Lyft, or take the OCBus.

Hotels that had their own shuttles before the ATN collapse include the Candy Cane Inn with the weirdly short route of just over a half mile from the parks, Majestic Garden Hotel that is a mile away, and Hyatt Regency Orange County that is two miles away. Candy Cane Inn & Magic Garden Hotel are free, however, Hyatt Regency costs $7 for a day pass. My family & I stayed there a couple times in the 2010s when my dad was at conferences there, and it was quite convenient but can be packed. This could give insight into the future of hotel shuttles. A smaller Disneyland guest oriented hotel will probably be included in the room rate since nearly everyone uses it, and convention oriented hotels will have fares since not all guests will use it. 

For those okay taking OC Bus with their $2 fare, ART Bus routes such as the 43 Local & 543 Rapid (weekday only) routes for hotels along Harbor, and 50 Local routes along Katella from ARTIC to Harbor or Disneyland Drive for Downtown Disney, making some ART routes redundant anyways. OC Bus 553 Rapid goes directly from the ARTIC to Disneyland on weekdays only. For hotels by the Outlets at Orange, they have to take two buses, 43 Local & then 54 Local along Chapman. Nonetheless, all the buses are always so packed, making it hard sell for hotel guests going only for a few blocks. 

Thankfully, the hotel I work at is working on a plan for our own shuttle again.

ART Excursion with DJPetesake

DJPetesake’s First ART Bus Trip

Transit & Infrastructure YouTuber, DJPetesake, wanted to check out all the remaining ART routes that he on a Saturday before ATN shuts down, so no 17 Anaheim Canyon line since is a commuter route timed with Metrolink.

Taking Metrolink from Fullerton to Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) and he got a free transfer for his Metrolink ticket on all of his rides. First was the 15 Sports Complex line from the ARTIC to Disneyland. Second was the combination of routes 3 Grove line & 4 Harbor line, and 5 Grand Plaza line got in the mix for some reason, which he was allowed his Metrolink ticket. The third route was the 6 Disney Way/12 Manchester Line that ends at the hotels by the Outlets at Orange, and the bus operator took him back to the ARTIC since it was the end of the bus operator’s shift. At the end, DJPetesake was confused about the ART being a tourist oriented system and how it is funded by assessment fees and user unfriendliness of the system. Also was not happy with any boarding diagrams at the terminal but went by route number that corresponded to the bus bay. However, he is supportive of a new system to get people to Disneyland cleanly by transit. 

After filming of his original video, DJPetesake contacted me via Instagram about doing a collaboration video about the ATN system and the remaining routes he has not done yet. I happily accepted his collaboration video offer!

The Collaboration Portion of the Video

So on February 21, I met up with DJPetesake at the ARTIC at 11:36 am with the arrival of the Metrolink OC 1667 from Fullerton. We planned out the other routes he missed from his previous trip which was the 20 Toy Story Line, the combined 9/11 route that serves the hotels that are on the perimeter of Disneyland, and the combined 7/9 routes on Clementine & the Hotel Circle. 

ART 20 Toy Story Line

To ride the 20 line without a security check, we took the OC Bus 50 to Katella & Clementine and walked through the Toy Story Parking Lot for the 20 line via a designated pathway. No one bothers you as long as you walk along the pathway, and go around a barrier to the main lot.

The parking lot was a former strawberry field that Disney bought from the Fujishige Family, the last valuable undeveloped land in Anaheim in February 1998 for an undisclosed amount. The family fought tooth & nail against the city, private developers, and Disney throughout the latter half of the 20th century to keep before selling ultimately to Disney to be the Toy Story Parking Lot. 

In the mornings, security gates are at the parking lot, but then shift over to the Harbor security gate in the afternoon, so we did not have to deal with security checks. Waiting in line, we boarded next on the 60 ft BYD articulated bus and we both sat in the back seats to head to the Disneyland bus bays. The 20 line bus meanders the lot to Clementine & Katella to take the route up Clementine, then left on Disney Way, and to a dedicated busway to the Disneyland bus bays. Then we exited the bus for our next route. 

On the way, at Clementine & Disney Way, you can see the cast member parking lot that will be converted into a 6,000 space garage & new bus terminal. Demolition permits were filled on February 12 to tear down an office for the garage for the first phase of construction. 

Combined 9/11 Routes & Struggle with Fare Purchase

At the Disneyland bus bays, DJPetesake and I boarded our next bus 9/11 combined route. This route is clockwise & counterclockwise respectively on the streets that surround the Disneyland property. These two routes became permanently combined on February 7 as part of the wind down of service.

When we tried to board with the Metrolink ticket as a transfer, the bus operator did not accept as it was only for the 15 line to the ARTIC only. Why did all the bus operators accept DJPetesake’s Metrolink transfer in his prior video? Who knows.

Our first hurdle, getting ART day passes of $6 a person or $4 one way fare, which I bought online on Anaheim Transportation Network’s website for the day pass for both of us & DJPetesake paid me back for his pass. So just need to show the screenshots of the confirmation of purchase to the bus operator and you are good to go. 

When Anaheim Transportation Network originally used the app A Way We Go app via Token Transit as shown above from 2022 that would use app to buy the ticket and validate with RFID tap or QR Code. It required an account to use and was hard to use while in a rush to catch the shuttle. 

ATN rolled out the new online system in November 2025, in which you just show your email confirmation and I got an emailed receipt of the purchase to show the bus operator. However, now you have to contact ATN for a receipt now for some reason.   

Our second hurdle was our destination, which was just an excursion of the route. However, the bus operators don’t allow full loop excursions, so we confused the bus operator as we have to have a destination that is not Disneyland. So I said that we can exit at the Anaheim Convention Center so we can connect with the 5 Grand Plaza to get back to Disneyland. Then the bus operator took us around on the counter clockwise loop of the 11 line to the Anaheim Convention Center (ACC) while I was struggling to purchase the day passes online. 

Grand Plaza Line 5

At the ACC, the bus operator dropped us off & it was busy as there was the 2026 Spirit National cheerleading competition and Religious Education Conference was there at the same time.  DJPetesake & I made our way to the Hilton Anaheim ART bus stop at the Anaheim Convention Center Grand Plaza, getting through the huge crowds of cheerleaders & really loud evangelists. Then we finally made it to the Hilton stop, which has a map of the Anaheim Resort area. 

Then the Grand Plaza line 5 bus arrived and DJPetesake & I were the only passengers on this bus. I showed the bus operator our passes and we were good to go back to Disneyland. The bus operator had to negotiate heavy road traffic at the Anaheim Marriott driveway, but we eventually made it through and out the convention area, and went up Harbor Blvd. to Disneyland. 

“Only if more people rode the bus instead of driving. The soon non existent bus.”

-DJPetesake, February 21, 2026

It was so true since everyone drove into the cheer competition & the Church conferences, causing tons of road traffic at 2 pm on a Saturday, only if there is a way to park your car offsite & take the bus the last mile in. 

Combined Routes 7/8

Back at the Disneyland bus bays, we took our final route of the day, the combined route of 7 & 8. We had our destination as the south entrance of the GardenWalk stop by the OCBus stop at Katella & Clementine we were at earlier. However, the bus operator stopped us at the north end of the GardenWalk since it would be a long diversion, but we insisted on going the long way around so the bus operator continued on. 

The route turns left on to Manchester for SunCoast Park, Element, and the Howard Johnson hotels. Then right on to Harbor, over I-5, right on to Ball Road, and right on Anaheim Blvd. To get to the Viv Hotel. The Viv actually has a route deviation with a u turn through the front driveway to the stop. However, no one was there, so that deviation was not worth it. 

Then the bus continued down Anaheim Blvd. to Candlewood Suites, Peacock Suites, and the Anaheim Resort Suites, formerly called the Cambria Hotel, which has a waterpark next to the freeway. Then we turned right on Katella Avenue, then right on Clementine to do another deviation to the Clementine Hotel & Suites. Then we went back to Katella through Zeyn Street for the Wyndham Worldmark Hotel. I am not sure why Zeyn is a street name. The last stop was our stop at the GardenWalk at Katella & Clementine. 

That ended our adventure of the Anaheim Resort Transportation system that still exists on a Saturday. I walked with DJPetesake back to Harbor Boulevard for him to catch the 43 bus back to Fullerton. On the way, we went through the always interesting yet really empty mall that is the GardenWalk, which opened in 2008 & struggled to retain tenants ever since, at least they had neat art pieces. 

Conclusion & Possible Future of Transit in Anaheim

It was an interesting time to see the particulars of a tourist oriented bus system that is somehow bleeding money like crazy. From the the funding model of assessment fees & fare box revenue, the most expensive one way fare of of $4 to only go a couple miles at most, Metrolink & Amtrak transfers only cover just the 15 line but allowed DJPetesake in his video, you have to have a destination in mind & can not do a route excursion, no real boarding diagram at the Disneyland bus terminal, combined routes make things complicated, and I can go on but I will stop there. Long story short, there has to be a new bus system since service has to be here to provide clean transportation to the parks’, and hopefully a new system will iron out issues the ART system & ATN had in general.

What will be the future of transportation when the clock strikes midnight on April 1st? Disney said that they will get a new shuttle company to contract shuttle services. Everyone else, who knows. Maybe Anaheim is working on a new system. Since the most expensive part of the system is out with the Toy Story shuttle, it is more feasible to bring the routes back under public control, not a weird non profit. However, that is just speculation, but I will keep things updated in future videos and the timeline of February & thereafter below.   

A huge thank you to DJPetesake for inviting me on this collaboration video and hopefully gives us closure on this interesting bus system that was powered by Anaheim Transportation Network.

Timeline of February 2026 & Thereafter (This section will be updated as new information comes in.)

Combined 9/11 Route Is Now Permanent: February 7

The first step of the wind down was the now permanent combined route on February 7 of the only circular route on the ART system was the 9 & 11 route that go clockwise & counter clockwise respectively around the perimeter hotels that flank Disneyland.

Layoff Notices: February 26

On February 26, layoff notices has been posted for all staff at Anaheim Transportation Network to the California Employment Development Department via Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN).

End of ART On-Demand: March 1

On March 1, ATN has now terminated the On-Demand service for ART, no more point to point on-demand bus service in the resort area.

City of Garden Grove Hotel Shuttles: March 13

With 18 days left of Anaheim Transportation Network, The City of Garden Grove has announced on March 13 that they will have their own ATN legacy system! They will have a shuttle service from all hotels along Harbor Boulevard from Hampton Inn to the Great Wolf Lodge. This system will be funded via hotel occupancy assessments to hotels and fare box revenue from guests. 

This service will takeover ART Bus service on the 3 Grove District & 4 Harbor lines stopping at Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Residence Inn, Homewood Suites, Anaheim Marriott Suites, Delta Hotel, Sheraton, Great Wolf Lodge, then dashes up Harbor to Disneyland. Guest fare rates are to be announced. This leaves Anaheim & Orange left for their plans for a shuttle. Hyatt Regency Orange County has their own shuttle.

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Blog Only Notes: Detailed Breakdown of the Services & Funding

Notes are from the 2026 Fiscal Year Transmissal & my personal experience.

• Anaheim Regional Transportation (ART): 

ART is the core service of ATN with fixed bus routes from participating hotels to Disneyland. Guests pay for one way fare via credit card tap to pay or prepay online for a day fare. Disneyland’s assessment agreement with ATN has ART bus operators run shuttles from Toy Story parking lot to the eastern drop off point.  There are routes added for the commuters from the Anaheim Canyon. Anaheim Canyon Metrolink station to downtown Anaheim & resort area via Route 17 from Metrolink Inland Empire line as the next station would go all the way down in Orange. Route 15 for Sports Complex Line connects Honda Center, Angel Stadium, and ARTIC to Disneyland. There is overnight service for the overnight staff that was just launched back in January that is now just ending. Along with On-Demand service to point to point rides within the ART area, which will end March 1, 2026. Most of the fleet consists of BYD electric buses ranging from 30ft, 40 ft, and 60 ft lengths. ATN can contract for conferences & conventions for charter services such as Natural Products Expo West during early March with auxiliary parking at Angel Stadium to reduce car traffic in the resort area. 

All buses operated need a California Commercial Drivers license. Most cars & pick up trucks people drive are class C, which can only hold up to 7 people in large SUVs such as my Toyota Highlander. Class B is what most of ATN bus operators need to obtain, ATN would provide training if you want to operate a bus or just need to get a commercial endorsement for the nine person passenger vans for Everybody Ventures Everywhere Shuttles from Anaheim Resort area to John Wayne Santa Ana Airport. 

• Free Rides Around the Neighborhood (FRAN): 

FRAN was free to use for guests in the Center City (downtown) Anaheim area with the online web app. The shuttles were fully electric with five passenger capacity so you can go bar hopping downtown. It is also used by local residents for short trips around the neighborhood. However, the shuttle does not go to the resort area. I have not used it myself since we like to explore downtown by foot. The service was suspended in November 2025 & did not come back along with EVE as a cost cutting measure. 

• Everybody Ventures Everywhere (EVE): 

EVE was a shuttle service by ATN to get the resort area from John Wayne Santa Ana Airport to the guests hotel in the resort area, even residents if they live in the service area as well, such as the apartments by Angel Stadium that I lived at. They used a Chinese electric vehicles manufacturer, BYD, a 9 person passenger van with EVE branding & luggage storage, which I only experienced on only one round trip. 30 ft transit ART bus that you need to hold on to your luggage while on board. Fares are $15 per adult or $7.5 for discounted fare. ART bus operators are also deployed for the EVE shuttle, so operators are paid per hourly basis so tipping is not needed. It can be convenient if your departure is timed just right like I did a couple of times, or not convenient if you wait for the shuttle operator to depart from the opposite direction. Service was suspended and did not come back along with FRAN as a cost cutting measure back in November 2025. 

• Senior Wheels: 

Funded by the city of Anaheim & Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Measure M2 for local curricular programs to get seniors around town without driving for errands & medical appointments for $2 per way via a voucher that also outside city limits but must make appointments 48 hours in advance to coordinate rides. I have only seen this shuttle a couple times in the resort area. After the wind down, the city of Anaheim will get a new operator for Senior Wheels. 

• Advancing Neighborhood Networks for All (ANNA): 

Many resort area guests would stay at the hotels & go to events at Honda Center & Angel Stadium and/or take the train or bus to the ARTIC. Between the areas is OC Bus 50 along Katella Ave. or the ART 15 line to Disneyland, however, neither are high capacity for events. ANNA would have a high capacity system to connect the areas. At a workshop for ANNA back in 2023 at the ARTIC, ATN would design, build, and operate a limited stop bus, an autonomous bus, bus rapid transit (BRT), or even a street car. The route would start from the ARTIC, Katella & Howell Street. State College Blvd., Lewis Street, Haster, and then plans spurs off to Downtown Disney, Disney Way, and/or the Anaheim Convention Center. There was a possible routing via Angel Stadium & Gene Autry to Haster Street. They also ask for inputs about shuttle stop amenities as well. As a reward for our workshop input, we got tacos! However, plans will now be flung way into the future for ANNA. 

There have also been plans for an aerial gondola system instead, which was put out for public feedback back in September 2025 with Swyft Cities, a company that has been attempting to put an aerial gondola system in the Great Park in Irvine since March 2025. 

Funding

ATN is funded by fare box, Co-Op Agreements, and Public Transit Assessment. 

Fare box revenue is direct income from passenger fare. ART is $4 for an adult fare or $1.25 for seniors, children 10 & under, and people working with disabilities. Day passes are $6 for adults & $2.50 for discounted groups for a full day of operation until 2 am. EVE was $15 per adult or $7.50 per discounted rate. ART buses can be chartered as well & used for special events services such as D23 Expo & Natural Products Expo West.   

Co-Op Agreements (page 34) include State Transit Assistance funding, Orange County Transportation Authority based on vehicle service miles & passenger revenue. $2 transfer fare credit from Metrolink & Amtrak transfer fares.

Most of the ATN’s revenue comes from four forms of Public Public Transit Assessment Fees to businesses that rely on business that uses ATN’s services listed in page 33. Hotels are assessed a .60 cent per occupied room per day to fund ATN with a proposed increase to .63 cents, Retail & FRAN Assessment to commercial properties in Center City (downtown) area of Anaheim to fund FRAN shuttles, and Disneyland Resort Assessment that are fees agreed between ATN & Disneyland Resort for Toy Story Shuttles.    

Bus operators are contracted via Parking Company of America with unions by Teamsters Local with a bus operator wage of $25 an hour.