River Valley Transit

Headquarters 1500 West Third Street
Locale Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Service type bus service, paratransit
Web site ridervt.com

River Valley Transit provides public bus transportation throughout Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

Officially named as the Williamsport Bureau of Transportation the system is called River Valley Transit to describe the mission and coverage area of the service. RVT was previously known as City Bus prior to the summer of 2005.

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Service area

The city of Williamsport is home to the McDade Trade and Transit Center, which is the main station and central hub for all the bus routes. Relative to Williamsport and the main bus station, the service area includes the following:

to the south, across the West Branch Susquehanna River are the boroughs of South Williamsport and Duboistown;
to the west are Woodward and Piatt Townships, and the borough of Jersey Shore;
to the north is Old Lycoming Township, including Garden View and Grimesville;
and to the east are Loyalsock Township, and the boroughs of Montoursville, Muncy, and Hughesville, with Montgomery to the southeast, across the river.

Riding RVT

The Trade & Transit Center is located in downtown Williamsport, which is the central hub to the bus system. It is located between West Third Street, Pine Street, and Laurel Street. Also located next to the Trade & Transit Center is the Transit Scoop, where you can pass a few minutes with a bite to eat. On the south side of West Third Street is the parking garage, allowing for riders to park their vehicles and ride the buses.

An example of the parking garage being useful is during the Little League World Series baseball games held in South Williamsport. Visitors can purchase passes which allow them to park away from the traffic congestion and quickly get to and from the games.

Daytime bus service officially begins at 5:30 a.m., and continues until 7:00 p.m. After 7:00 p.m., the two Nightline buses provide service hourly as far east as the Lycoming Mall and as far west as the Reach Road industrial park. The 'late' bus provides outbound only service going west, and offers transportation to employees at the Reach Road Industrial Park at 11 p.m.

Saturday services deviate from the weekday schedules on select routes. Deviations can be a shorter route, not running as many trips, or not running at all (due to redundancy of another route or low ridership on Saturday). RVT does not operate scheduled routes on Sunday. The Little League World Series is the one exception where scheduled service is offered on Sunday.

Fares

Current as of September 2008[1]

On the bus:

Passes purchased at the Trade & Transit Center:

Others:

Fleet

Current fleet

Manufacture Model length Seats Bus numbers
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 40 ft 601
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 35 ft 32 701, 702, 706
New Flyer Industries D40LF 40 ft 39 801-803
Chance Coach, Inc. RT-52 805, 806, 809, 810
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-08 35 ft 807, 808
New Flyer Industries D35LF 35 ft 29 901, 902
Optima Opus 30 ft 903, 904
New Flyer Industries D35LF 35 ft 29 905, 906
Optima Opus 35 ft 907, 908
Freightliner LLC van 909, 910
Gillig BRT 35 ft 1101–1103
Gillig BRT 40 ft 1104–1105
Gillig BRT 40 ft 1106, new in November 2006)
Gillig BRT 35 ft 1107-1109
Gillig BRT 40 ft 1201
Trolley buses
Peter Herdic
Anne Weightman
Carl Stotz

Previous Fleet

Manufacture Model Length Seats Bus Numbers Retirement
MCI 501 2007 January
GMC RTS-06 35 ft 502 2009 Summer
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 40 ft 602 2009 Summer
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 35 ft 603 unknown
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 35 ft 604 2009 Summer
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 35 ft 704-705 2007 January

Route list

Accessibility

References

  1. ^ http://www.ridervt.com/fares.htm

External links