Route 42 Re-route Outbound to Town Square Mall: The Marketplace stop by Verizon will be closed and a temp stop will be placed by Einsteins. The stop at Midland and Cherry Lane will be closed. Inbound to Happy Day Transit Center: The stop at Midland and cherry ln will be closed. the stop in the Marketplace in front of the McDonald's will remain open.
All stops on Maple Grove between Maple Grove between Overland and Victory are closed.
Outbound Regular route until Maple Grove & Overland, now we are turning Left on Overland, Right on Cole, Right on Victory, Left on Trabuco, Left on W. Salt Creek and back to normal route Missed stops Maple Grove & Overland, Pax will need to use Maple Grove & Hackamore Victory & Victory View, A temp has been placed at Trabuco for this stop Inbound Down Protec, Right on Victory, Left on Cole, Left on Overland, Right on Maple Grove and back to regular route Missed stops Victory & Victory view, Temp is placed on Trabuco that can be used for this
The following inbound stops have been closed Overland and Owyhee, Overland and Shoshone, and Overland and Vista are closed. Temp stops have been placed 300 feet prior to Owyhee and at Roberts.
VRT is working with its funding partners to identify what service changes may take place during fiscal year 2022 (which runs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022).
More information about the potential changes will be made available to the public for comment as soon as possible.
Valley Regional Transit (VRT) worked towards improving service in Ada and Canyon County in 2020. Our goal with these changes was to maximize the effectiveness of existing transit resources and connect more people to more places more often. Public transportation is important to the future of Ada County communities and there is public support for and interest in transit. The public wants more transit service during the commute period, in the evening, and on weekends. Transit is viewed as a benefit to employees.
The changes were implemented in two stages:
We wanted to improve on-time performance by reducing the number of time points to roughly 10-minute intervals. All routes have timing adjustments.
This included streamlining schedule design and highlighting the destinations accessible by each route to improve route information for passengers.
All Routes
All ValleyRide bus routes in Boise/Garden City and intercounty routes have new schedule times.
Route 1
New route pathway on Parkcenter. No longer provides service on Apple, Bown and Boise Avenue.
Route 2
Later service until 9:30 p.m. on weekdays. New route pathway on Front Street. Route no longer provides service on Idaho Street.
Route 4
New route pathway on River Street. No longer travel on 13th and Shoreline Drive.
Route 9
Limited service to Eagle (four in the morning and three in the evening). Inbound trips from Eagle have a new pathway at Saxton.
Routes 3, 7A, 7B, 9
Later service until 9:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Routes 8 and 8X
The Chinden at HP stop has been renamed Chinden at State of Idaho Campus.
Routes 51, 52, 55 –
We have closed down these routes and switched from a fixed-route system to an on-demand service in Nampa and Caldwell.
All ValleyRide bus routes in Boise/Garden City and intercounty routes had new schedule times beginning October 1, 2020. You can access the new timings for each route below:
Route 1 Harris Ranch Via Parkcenter
Route 2 Broadway
Route 3 Vista
Route 4 Roosevelt
Route 5 Emerald
Route 6 Orchard
Route 7A/B Fairview
Route 8 Five Mile
Route 8X Five Mile/Chinden
Route 9 State Street
Route 10 Hill Road
Route 11 Garden City
Route 12 Maple Grove
Route 16 VA/Hyde Park
Route 17 Warm Springs
Route 28 Cole/Victory
Route 29 Overland
Route 40 Nampa/Meridian Express
Route 42 Happy Day Transit Center/Towne Square Mall
Route 43 Caldwell Express
Route 45 Boise State/CWI Express
Revenue and ridership in Canyon County have not kept up with cost or performance expectations. Attempts to adjust service levels and routes within those resources continue to lead to low quality services and continuing poor system performance. Accordingly, VRT staff evaluated Canyon County local services to determine how those services could be redesigned to be more productive within the limited resources currently available.
VRT researched and evaluated innovative approaches to transit and determined an on-demand transit system has a high probability of achieving the desired results for the services within the existing financial constraints.
VRT staff expects to build new ridership contracts and/or funding partnerships with the expanded service area. Staff also expects to see increased efficiencies and higher ridership revenue over the term of the on-demand pilot term. If this pilot is successful, it will become the model for on demand transit within other VRT service areas.
We closed down routes 51, 52 and 55 and moved from a fixed-route system to an on-demand service in Nampa and Caldwell.
