Wind River Transportation Authority
Headquarters2554 Airport Drive, Riverton
LocaleRiverton and Lander, Wyoming
Service areaFremont County, Wyoming
Service typeBus service, paratransit
Routes2
Fleet8 buses
Annual ridership60,026 (2019)
WebsiteWRTA

Wind River Transportation Authority, or WRTA, is the primary provider of mass transportation in Fremont County, Wyoming with two routes serving the region. As of 2019, the system provided 60,026 rides over 15,974 annual vehicle revenue hours with eight buses and six paratransit vehicles.[1]

Public transit in the region began in 1989 when the Shoshone and Arapaho Nations Transit Authority started providing services in Fremont County and the Wind River Indian Reservation. This service became the WRTA in 1996 when the operations were transferred to the Fremont County Association of Governments.[2]

WRTA shut down service from April 2020 until January 12, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] In summer 2021, there were two runs per day of the bus between Riverton, Lander and other destinations. This was increased to six runs per day in summer 2023 and up to eight runs daily on two routes for winter 2023.[4][5]

Service

Wind River Transportation Authority operates two bus routes connecting Riverton, Hudson, Lander, Fort Washakie, Ethete, and Kinnear. Each route operates four times daily, either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Hours of operation for the system are Monday through Friday from 5:45 A.M. to 7:20 P.M. There is no service on Saturdays and Sundays. Regular fares are $2.00.[6]

Fixed route ridership

The ridership statistics shown here are for fixed route services only and do not include demand response services.[7]

10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WRTA Agency Profile" (PDF). Retrieved September 16, 2023.
  2. ↑ "WRTA". Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  3. ↑ Abby Maidl (January 12, 2021). "WRTA bus lines open after a historic closure of almost a year". Wyoming News Now. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  4. ↑ "New WRTA Bus Schedule with new Stops Begins January 3, 2023". Wyo Today. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  5. ↑ Amanda Fehring (June 3, 2022). "WRTA summer fixed route schedule released". County 10. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ "WRTA Fixed Routes". Retrieved September 16, 2023.
  7. ↑ "The National Transit Database (NTD)". Retrieved September 16, 2023.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.