Shoreline Metro

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Shoreline Metro
Founded 1972
Headquarters 608 South Commerce St.
Locale Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Service type bus service
Routes 10
Fleet 27
Operator City of Sheboygan
Website ShorelineMetro.com

Shoreline Metro (formerly Sheboygan Transit) is the bus system owned and operated by the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It has been in service since 1972, but traces its formation back to the Sheboygan City Railway Company in 1886. Various private companies have succeeded each other in the area, transitioning from light rail to streetcars to buses.[1] The system changed their name in October 2010 to "Lakeshore Metro", but changed it further to "Shoreline Metro" February 2011 due to a trademark conflict with an already existing private paratransit company, Lakeshore Transportation.[2]

Shoreline has a total of 10 routes throughout the city, and operates with 15 Gillig Low Floor Buses, 7 Chance buses, and 4 Rapid Transit Series buses. It additionally operates nine "tripper" routes during the school year, which provide transportation from major routes around the city for students to schools in the Sheboygan Area School District, along with the city's parochial schools, day care centers and YMCA.

Route list

All routes depart from the "Metro Center", more known as the "Transfer Point" located directly south of Sheboygan City Hall off Center Avenue.[3]

  • Route 1 North (serves the lakefront area, including the Sheboygan County YMCA, Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center and Sheboygan North High School
  • Route 3 North (serves Michigan Avenue and Calumet Drive businesses, along with Cooper and Pigeon River Elementary Schools)
  • Route 3 South (serves South Business Drive businesses and Washington Square Shopping Center, along with Sheridan Elementary School and peak-hour service to Horace Mann Middle School)
  • Route 5 North (serves North 8th Street, Urban Middle School, Northgate Commons and Eisner Court)
  • Route 5 South (serves Heritage Square, Farnsworth Middle School, Early Learning Center, Wilson Elementary School, and Indian Meadows trailer court)
Lakeshore Metro "Metro Center", long building in center-left of picture.
  • Route 7 North (serves Superior Avenue, St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan Clinic, Pick 'n Save West, Sheboygan Police Headquarters, and Sheboygan County Job Center/Lakeshore Technical College-Sheboygan Campus)
  • Route 7 South (serves Blue Harbor Resort, extreme south side (Sunnyside), Sheboygan South High School, Farnsworth Middle School, Longfellow Elementary School and Sheboygan County Christian High School)
  • Route 10 Mall (serves Memorial Mall, Memorial Plaza, Taylor Heights, Sheboygan Clinic, Pick 'n Save West, Aldi and Tamarack apartment complex)
  • Route 20 Kohler/Sheboygan Falls (serves Kohler and Sheboygan Falls, along with Route 10 destinations)
  • Route 30 Industrial Park (serves southwest side of city, including both Sheboygan Industrial Parks, Sheboygan County Detention Center, Deer Trace Shopping Center, UW-Sheboygan, Sheboygan Lutheran High School, James Madison Elementary School, Horace Mann Middle School, Indian Meadows, Washington Square, Country Village Apartments, and south side Wal-Mart)

References

  1. ↑ "Sheboygan Transit History Page". Sheboygan Transit. Retrieved 2009-02-28. 
  2. ↑ http://www.whbl.com/news/articles/2011/feb/12/buses-will-now-read-shoreline-metro/
  3. ↑ http://www.lakeshoremetro.com/routes-schedules

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