The Virginian-Pilot
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SUFFOLK
Hampton Roads Transit will stop providing local bus service in Suffolk at 6:30 p.m., officials said.
Two bus routes in the city will be discontinued, and Virginia Regional Transit will start service for two others on Tuesday.
There will be no bus service in Suffolk on Monday because it’s a holiday.
The change comes after Suffolk withdrew from HRT’s service area, and HRT concluded its service agreement with the city, according to a written release.
HRT had been operating four local routes and an express route in Suffolk. The express route – MAX Route 962 – will continue to serve the Magnolia Park and Ride in downtown Suffolk through June 2012.
Local routes 72 and 73 will be discontinued, and Handi-Ride customers located off those routes will not be provided service starting Tuesday.
VRT will take over service for routes 71 and 74, and provide para-transit service for Handi-Ride customers within three-quarters of a mile of those routes.
For more information about VRT’s service, call Maria Ptakowski at 757-514-7715.
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Bus Service in Suffolk
Sounds like to me that the Crooks with the City of Suffolk and the Crooks with HRT should kiss and make up. Not providing public transportation in this SO-CALLED City is shameful. The City is too Darn Sorry to come up with funds for overpriced HRT. It is already plain SORRY that the City of Suffolk can't maintain the roads it has now when they took over the maintenance from VDOT. HRT is also SORRY for not coming up with a DEAL with the Crooks in Suffolk. But they let Norfolk City Employees and others ride the FANCY Tide for free. Now HRT is looking to spend big bucks for a new Boss Man. I love to know where all that money is coming from.
It Would Help
It would help if The V-P wouldn't essentially cut-and-paste the HRT Press Release. In doing so, you repeated a huge error in it:
1. Magnolia Park and Ride - on the eastern outskirts of Suffolk. Also served by (to be discontinued) Route 73.
2. Suffolk Bus Plaza - in downtown Suffolk, the western terminus of Route 962, and the meeting place for the four impacted mainline routes (71, 72, 73, and 74).
In repeating the Press Release, you just put Magnolia where the Suffolk Bus Plaza actually is. Please correct before going to the print edition.
Henry Ryto, live from Suffolk, where I've come to ride the four impacted routes on their final day.