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Valley Metro Bus [7] is the public transit bus service in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Valley Metro Bus provides local, regional, express, and rural bus services in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, covering a service area of 525 sq mi (1,360 km 2). In 2023, the system had a ridership of 24,215,700, or about 75,300 per weekday in the ...
Within the system, it is divided between Valley Metro Bus, which runs all bus operations, Valley Metro Rail, which is responsible for light rail and streetcar operations in the Valley. In 2023, the combined bus and rail system had a ridership of 36,374,000, or about 107,900 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
In May 2000, after 8 years of planning, the bus line officially commenced service along Highway 140 providing access to Merced and Mariposa counties. [2] The service was billed as a two-year demonstration project, operating only in the peak summer months (May through September), and was expected to attract 18,000 round-trip passengers. [ 3 ]
Valley Metro Rail station – 2009. Valley Metro's 29.8-mile (48.0 km) light rail project, called Valley Metro Rail, through north-central Phoenix, downtown, and eastward through Tempe and Mesa, opened December 27, 2008. Future rail segments of more than 30 miles (48 km) are planned to open by 2030.
Phoenix Transit System, a predecessor of Valley Metro, created an innovative postpaid billing system for employer-sponsored passes in 1991. This system, marketed as the Bus Card Plus, used an early form of fare capping , where employers were charged for their employees' rides up to the cost of a monthly bus pass.
Valley Metro: Operated by: Valley Metro Rail: Line(s) Central Phoenix/East Valley Light Rail Line PHX Sky Train: Platforms: 1 island platform: Tracks: 2: Connections: Valley Metro Bus: 1, 32, 44 [1] Greyhound Lines Flixbus [2] Construction; Structure type: At-grade: Accessible [3] Other information; Station code: 10018: History; Opened ...
Van Buren/1st Avenue station and Van Buren/Central Avenue station, also known as Central Station, is a pair of Valley Metro Rail stations in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Despite having at least four different names, it is all actually one facility, which serves as a stop for various city buses.
Valley Metro was created by the Transit 2000 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), also called the Transit 2000 plan, which involved a half-cent sales tax, and was approved by Phoenix voters in 2000. Transit 2000 aimed at improving the local bus service (considered unacceptably inadequate compared to other major US cities) and adding new bus ...