Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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New Freedom Grant Award Announced

Greenlink is pleased to announce a successful applicant for the New Freedom funding program during the abbreviated funding cycle. The abbreviated funding cycle began April 1st and ended April 19th. The successful applicant is the City of Greenville’s Department of Parks and Recreation. They were awarded a total of $56,886.00. $48,000.00 of this amount will be allocated towards 80% of the cost of purchasing a 16-passenger bus for the David Hellum’s Community Center. $8,886 will be used to cover 50% of the cost of operating the bus. If you would like to comment on this award, please contact Gregory Baney at 864-467-2700.

Who can apply? For JARC, any organization (private or nonprofit) that offers transit service or is interested in offering transit service to under-resourced individuals to assist with commuting from their place of residence to their place of employment and back. For the New Freedom funding category, any similar organization that offers or seeks to offer transit service for elderly and disabled individuals may apply.  

How to apply: To apply for either cycle (or both) please Download the Application

For more information: contact Gregory Baney at 864-467-2700
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 Rack N Ride Video Minimize

Bike racks were recently installed on the front of all buses that operate on the fixed routes.  Greenlink and the City of Greenville plan to install more bike racks so that someone can ride their bike to a bus stop, place the bike on the bus rack, and then ride their bike from the bus stop to their destination. 

To view an instructional video on how to use the bus bike racks, click here.
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 Media Minimize

10/2/09 - New Greelink Policy to Eliminates Flag Stop to Improve Safety and Efficiency

Beginning Monday, October 5, Greenlink will enact a new policy that implements a dedicated stop system, thus eliminating so-called “flag stops.” Flag stops occur whenever a bus passenger can flag down a bus to obtain a ride at any point along the bus route. Flag stops make it virtually impossible to run an on-time system. With this new system, Greenlink drivers will only stop the buses at designated bus stops and passengers will no longer be able to get on or off the buses between stops. The Greenville Transit Authority, the City of Greenville and Greenville County are currently working together to install new Greenlink bus stop signs at every stop so that passengers will know exactly where to wait for the bus and will have a safe place to be while they wait. Approximately 400 new signs have been installed.
Click here for the entire News Release

1/27/09 - GTA Annual Report from FY 2008
Click here for the News Release
Click here for a copy of the Annual Report Presentation

7/11/08 - GTA Property for Sale

The Greenville Transit Authority is receiving bids for the sale of 106 Augusta Street. More info

2/1/2008 - GTA Releases Highlights from FY 2007 Annual Report

In Fiscal Year 2007 (October 2006 – September 2007, the Greenville Transit Authority:

  • Carried 840,620 passengers on its eleven fixed routes.
  • Generated passenger revenue of $588,003, which represents almost 26% of the total budget.
  • Traveled 663,608 fixed route miles.
  • Provided 42,696 hours of fixed route service.
  • Recorded a cost per fixed-route passenger served of $2.70, representing an 18% cost decrease from the previous year.
  • Carried 8,147 paratransit passengers.
  • Generated $17,202 of paratransit passenger revenue.
  • Traveled 65,314 miles to deliver paratransit services.
  • Recorded a cost per paratransit passenger served of $36.68, representing a 33% cost decrease from the previous year.

1/28/2008 – City of Greenville enters into contract with Greenville Transit Authority for the provision of transit operations services.  

The City of Greenville has entered into a five year contract with the Greenville Transit Authority for the provision of transit operations services.  Under the contract, the City will provide management and financial services as well as building maintenance, vehicle maintenance and operations.  The contract, which begins on March 31, includes reducing transit operations costs by providing some administrative and support services through existing City departments.  The cost reductions will be used to help fund service improvements.  The City also expects to contribute in-kind services through the City Public Works Department, to bring more Federal dollars to Greenville in the interest of improving transit.  

To see a copy of the City’s contract with GTA, click here.

 

 

 

 
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