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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The Gainesville City Commission recently approved HNTB Corporation to begin drafting plans for construction that will connect Clark Butler Boulevard and Southwest 62nd Boulevard.
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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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As Gainesville grows with more housing and retail areas, the city’s bus services are also expanding to keep up with the changes. The Regional Transit System will be making changes to existing bus routes on the University of Florida Campus and areas throughout the city, including the Butler North Plaza. …
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City commissioners want County commissioners extend time so all parties can sit down and discuss the RTS land dispute. The building and surrounding land was bought and improved with federal grants so new uses that do not relate to transit could trigger considerable costs and reimbursement.
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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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Representatives from the city of Gainesville and Alachua County will meet Thursday to discuss ownership of a former Regional Transit System facility.
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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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A 30-year plan by RTS is hoping to save $13,000 per bus. Their plan is to switch to compressed natural gas, or CNG.
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