(a) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators to contract with common carriers of persons operating under a franchise or license to provide transportation services during peak hours.
“Peak hours” means the period of time during a day which have a clearly greater-than-average level of patronage, typically the two periods of time which reflect the influx of home-work and work-home patronage on a transportation system.
(b) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by a transit district to make bulk purchases of passenger tickets for passenger rail services, if it is authorized to make such purchases by its enabling legislation.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 161.)