Board meeting Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority Board of Members will meet at 8:45 a.m. today at its offices at 1550 Fourth Ave. on Charleston's West Side.
The wheels on the Huntington-to-Charleston bus may stop going round and round once a federal grant that funded the program dries up in January. However, officials with the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority and the Tri-State Transit Authority in Cabell are hoping they can save the route.
FOR the past several years as the price of gasoline has risen and the economy has fallen, the people in charge of the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority have assured us that bus ridership is up, up, up. I wonder now if that is on the up and up.
In tough economic times, officials with the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority are talking about eliminating the bus system's 10-cent transfer fee in favor of charging a dollar for a new ride. Routes could also be axed to help the organization that runs the area bus line cope with the rising cost of fuel, said Doug Hartley, assistant general manager.
On Oct. 25, 1971, the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority began operating public transit service to the citizens of Kanawha County. To celebrate the 40th-anniversary milestone, the KVRTA held a drawing for an annual bus pass for one of its riders that would be good for free transportation for a year on any KVRTA bus.
Inside Numerous factors influence gas prices / 12A Soaring gas prices could force some changes for public transportation in the Kanawha Valley. The Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority, commonly referred to as KRT, runs buses over about 45,000 miles of roadway per week, General Manager Denny Dawson said. The agency budgeted about $1.2 million for fuel during the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. But the rising cost of fuel especially diesel has eaten into finances, Dawson said. In fact, he estimates the organization will have spent that $1.2 million by the end of March with another three months left in the fiscal year. Dawson said the agency would move money from other budgeted items to pay for the diesel and gas used by KRTs 53 buses and 14 vans. Were robbing Pete...
THE recent article describing the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority's commitment to purchase diesel-hybrid buses at a $200,000 premium over a regular diesel bus is disturbing to me on three levels. First, I suggest the Manchin administration object to this purchase. Diesel fuel is not a purely domestic fuel, but a foreign fuel that is produced from 67 percent imported crude.
SKEPTICISM was warranted in 2008 when the Tri-State Transit Authority in Huntington and the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority in Charleston announced they would start a daily shuttle between the two cities. Not many people want to be 40 miles from home without a car.
Bus service in the Kanawha Valley could be in trouble if new federal regulations are allowed to stand. Officials in the U.S. Department of Commerce combined urban areas for Charleston and Huntington after 2010 census data was released, according to Dennis Dawson, general manager for the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority. The changes mean that KRT might no longer be able to use federal funding for operating expenses.
Staff writer In March, the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority introduced a $30,000 schedule-mapping program with hopes it would streamline passenger scheduling and increase ridership.
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