Wheels is a bus service that provides public transportation in the Tri-Valley Region (southeast Alameda County) of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the United States. Started in 1986, Wheels offers service to various communities in three cities, and connects to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains for connections to and from the greater Bay Area (Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose) and Central Valley (Stockton, Modesto, Tracy). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Wheels is operated by the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA), and it has carried nearly 2 million passengers annually. Areas served Wheels operates in Alameda County, with limited service in Contra Costa County. Alameda County: Dublin Pleasanton Livermore Contra Costa County: Pleasant Hill San Ramon Walnut Creek Fixed-route service As of March 2020, Wheels operates seven local routes, two Rapid routes, three express routes, fifteen select school trippers and three shuttle routes. Descriptions for all routes are described below. Local routes Note that routes with an X are express routes. And routes with an R are Rapid routes Wheels also operated an All-Nighter route, Route 810, that ran between Downtown Livermore to Bay Fair BART Station in San Leandro, serving areas currently provided by the all-day Route 10. However, due to budget cuts and low ridership, this route was eliminated on June 27, 2009. Tri-Valley Rapid On January 24, 2011, Wheels launched its first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service called the "Tri-Valley Rapid", dubbed route "R" for short. Billed as "the next generation transit system", the Tri-Valley Rapid makes travel in the Tri-Valley area (Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore) cleaner, easier, and faster. Route R was a route that ran parallel to its parent route-route 10 from Stoneridge Mall to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 6a.m. to 9p.m. As of August 2016, Wheels rolled out a second Rapid route numbered "30R" along with new and modified routes throughout the system. Route 10 was then modified and renumbered as route "10R". Wheels Rapid service incorporates similar features already used by local Bay Area transit agencies, like AC Transit and Golden Gate Transit, including: Buses operating every 15 minutes from 5:00a.m. to 7:00p.m. on weekdays. And 15 minutes all other times to provide maximum convenience for passengers Stops are mainly concentrated at major intersections and attractions along the route All-day service (operates from