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Emery Go-Round

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Public bus system in Emeryville, California

Emery Go-Round is a fare-free public bus system serving Emeryville, California, a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Service is funded primarily by commercial property owners through a citywide transportation business improvement district. The name, a play on the term merry-go-round, is a reference to both Emeryville founder Joseph Stickney Emery and the bus routes, which are loops beginning and ending at MacArthur BART Station in the adjacent city of Oakland.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Emery-Go-Round bus at MacArthur station, September 2019
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Emery Go-Round is a fare-free public bus system serving Emeryville, California, a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Service is funded primarily by commercial property owners through a citywide transportation business improvement district. The name, a play on the term merry-go-round, is a reference to both Emeryville founder Joseph Stickney Emery and the bus routes, which are loops beginning and ending at MacArthur BART Station in the adjacent city of Oakland.2

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As of 2024, Emery Go-Round operates two fixed routes: Shellmound-Powell and Hollis. Service operates daily with 15-minute frequency, except on selected holidays, with reduced service levels on weekends and selected additional holidays.

Both routes are loops, beginning and ending at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland. The Shellmound-Powell route runs concurrently with AC Transit's Line 57 (fare required) from Emeryville Public Market to MacArthur BART.

From Wikipedia’s article on Emery Go-Round, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

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