Gainesville’s Regional Transit System (RTS) announced on Thursday that it will accept credit card payments from customers purchasing monthly and semester bus passes at the Rosa Parks Downtown Station at 700 SE 3rd St. “This is really going to help streamline the process and make it more convenient,” said RTS Marketing …
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Some buses in Gainesville have more empty seats now than they had a year ago. The Regional Transit System’s passengers have flocked away from using the buses in the hundreds of thousands. Although ridership has decreased by 6 percent between 2014 and 2015, routes and buses haven’t disappeared. According to …
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Not everybody agrees with RTS’s decision to censor Bill Allen’s graphic.
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The Gainesville City Commission recently approved HNTB Corporation to begin drafting plans for construction that will connect Clark Butler Boulevard and Southwest 62nd Boulevard.
Read More »Beginning Monday, Gainesville's trash service will be collecting yard waste and storm debris.
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The sensors at traffic light intersections, which cause red lights to turn green faster when a vehicle is detected, often do not detect scooters or bicycles.
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Northwest Eighth Avenue in Gainesville was fully closed for the fourth time in four months over the weekend as construction on the road moves forward. The city does have other partial road closures planned (listed below), including those that started on Monday of this week and will continue through Thursday. But …
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Bus passes for homeless have been changed from a year long pass to monthly passes. People were using GRACE Marketplace services from 30 to 60 days. Some of the year long passes were being sold on Craigslist and other websites by homeless people.
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Thanks to the harsh el Niño weather, mosquitos did not go inactive this year and instead reproduced right through the winter season, leading to an increased mosquito population these next few months.
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The Alachua County Schools bus driver who struck a pedestrian Tuesday at Northwest 13th street and Northwest 7th Avenue has been cited for failure to yield the right-of-way, a Gainesville Police Department spokesman said.
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