Gainesville Regional Transit System

Gainesville RTS

2011 Gillig with Gator scale wrap
Slogan	Wherever your path leads...RTS will take you there.
Parent	City of Gainesville
Founded	1974
Locale	Gainesville, Florida
Service area	Alachua County, Florida
Service type	Bus service
Fleet	127
Daily ridership	48,600 (2011)^[1]
Fuel type	B20 (biodiesel)
Chief executive	Jesus Gomez
Website	Gainesville RTS website

Gainesville Regional Transit System is the local area transit corporation that serves the Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida area, the University of Florida and Santa Fe College campuses. It presently serves 39 city routes (16 on Saturdays, 12 on Sundays), 11 campus routes, and five "Later Gator" routes. Paratransit (ADA) service is also provided to anyone with a Gainesville address.

City and Campus routes

No.	Description	Operates
1	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Butler Plaza	Mon-Sun
2	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to NE Walmart Supercenter	Mon-Sat
3	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to N Main St. Post Office	Mon-Fri
5	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Oaks Mall	Mon-Sun
6	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to North Walmart Supercenter	Mon-Sat
7	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Eastwood Meadows	Mon-Fri
8	Shands to North Walmart Supercenter	Mon-Sun
9	Reitz Union to Hunters Run	Mon-Sun
10	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Santa Fe College	Mon-Sat
11	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Eastwood Meadows	Mon-Sun
12	Reitz Union to Butler Plaza	Mon-Sun
13	Beaty Towers at the University of Florida to CareerSource	Mon-Sun
15	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to NW 13th St./NW 23rd Ave.	Mon-Sun
16	Beaty Towers at the University of Florida to Sugar Hill	Mon-Sun
17	Beaty Towers at the University of Florida to Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station	Mon-Fri
19	Reitz Union to SW 23rd Terrace	Mon-Fri
20	Reitz Union to Oaks Mall	Mon-Sun
22	The Hub to Old Archer Rd. at SW 34th St.	Mon-Fri
23	Oaks Mall to Santa Fe College	Mon-Fri
24	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Job Corps	Mon-Fri
25A	UF Commuter Lot to Gainesville Regional Airport	Mon-Fri
25B	UF Cultural Plaza to Gainesville Regional Airport	Sat-Sun
26	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Gainesville Regional Airport	Mon-Fri
27	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to NE Walmart Supercenter	Mon-Fri
28	The Hub to Forest Park	Mon-Fri
29	Beaty Towers at the University of Florida to Kiwanis Park	Mon-Fri
34	The Hub to Lexington Crossing Apts	Mon-Fri
35	Reitz Union to SW 35th Place	Mon-Sun
36	The Hub to SW 34th St. Post Office (Williston Plaza)	Mon-Fri
37	Reitz Union to Butler Plaza (via SW 35th Place)	Mon-Fri
38	The Hub to Gainesville Place Apts	Mon-Fri
39	Santa Fe College to Gainesville Regional Airport	Mon-Fri
40	The Hub to Hunters Crossing	Mon-Fri
43	Shands to Santa Fe College	Mon-Fri
46	Reitz Union to Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station	Mon-Fri
62	Oaks Mall to Lexington Crossing Apts	Mon-Fri
75	Oaks Mall to Butler Plaza	Mon-Sat
76	Santa Fe College to Haile Market Square	Mon-Fri
77	Santa Fe College to Cabana Beach Apts	Mon-Fri
117	Park-N Ride 2 (SW 34th Street)	Mon-Fri
118	Park-N Ride 1 (UF Cultural Plaza)	Mon-Fri
119	Family Housing at the University of Florida	Mon-Fri
120	University of Florida West Circulator (Fraternity Row)	Mon-Fri
121	UF Commuter Lot	Mon-Fri
122	University of Florida North/South Circulator	Mon-Fri
125	Lakeside Residential Complex at the University of Florida	Mon-Fri
126	University of Florida East/West Circulator	Mon-Sun
127	University of Florida East Circulator (Sorority Row)	Mon-Fri
128	Reitz Union to Lake Wauburg	Saturdays
129	Lakeside Residential Complex at the University of Florida (Sorority Row)	Mon-Fri
711	Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station to Eastwood Meadows	Mon-Fri after 8:00 p.m., all day Sat-Sun

Campus Service

11 RTS routes operate on the University of Florida (UF) campus. These include "park and ride" and circulator routes. UF and Santa Fe College (SF) students have prepaid unlimited access to RTS services through a transportation fee attached to each credit hour for undergraduates. UF faculty, staff, spouses and retirees have unlimited prepaid access through the RTS Employee Bus Pass Program, as do SF faculty, staff and students.

Later Gator

Later Gator is a late night service that provides safe, late night service for students between campus, downtown, the Oaks Mall and southwest Gainesville through five routes.^[2]^[3]

Gator Aider

Gator Aider is a shuttle service provided to transport fans to and from University of Florida Gators home football games. Service is available at five park-n-ride locations around the Greater Gainesville area including the Town of Tioga, the Oaks Mall, Haile Plantation, the UF Hilton Conference Center and the City of Gainesville Downtown Parking Garage. Cost is $50 for a season pass and $10 for a single game round-trip ticket. Service begins three (3) hours prior to kickoff, with the last bus departing ten (10) minutes before kickoff. Return buses start at the fourth quarter and run throughout the first hour after the game ends.

Bus Tracking

Buses are now equipped with GPS, so riders can see if their bus is running on time.^[4]

Fleet

2012 Gillig Hybrid at McCarty Hall on UF Campus

RTS currently operates a fleet of 127 buses, some of which date back to the late-1990s. All RTS buses are equipped with bicycle racks and wheelchair lifts. While many were purchased new, others were acquired second-hand from other operators in the state, including 10 that were acquired from Lynx and 11 from Palm Tran. RTS acquired five new Gillig hybrid electric buses (two in early 2012 and three more in 2013). Buses in the current fleet include:^[5]

Gillig Phantom
Gillig Low Floor
Gillig Hybrid Electric
Nova RTS

References

External links

Public transportation systems in Florida

Bus	BCT Citrus Connection CAT CCT ECAT Gainesville RTS HART JTA Bus LakeXpress LeeTran Lynx MCAT Metrobus OCT Palm Tran PCPT PSTA The Ride Solution Sarasota County Area Transit Space Coast Area Transit StarMetro SCT SunTran THE Bus (Hernando) Votran WHAT

Rail	Jacksonville Skyway Metromover Metrorail MIA Mover SunRail Tri-Rail TECO Line

University of Florida

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Research and development	Askew Institute Bridge Software Institute Cancer Hospital Cancer and Genetics Research Complex Gatorade George A. Smathers Libraries Digital Collection Emerging Pathogens Institute Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy Gran Telescopio Canarias Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Mag Lab McKnight Brain Institute P. K. Yonge Research School Sanford-Burnham Institute Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator Trusopt UF Health Shands Hospital UF Health Jacksonville University of Florida Health Science Center UF Training Reactor Whitney Marine Lab

People	Alumni Board of Trustees University Presidents Faculty and administrators Honorary degree recipients Alumni Association Investment Corporation

Sports	Baseball Men's basketball Women's basketball Cross country Football Men's golf Women's golf Women's gymnastics Women's lacrosse Women's soccer Softball Swimming and diving Men's tennis Women's tennis Track and field Women's volleyball Overview: Florida Gators

Culture and lore	History of the University of Florida 34th Street Wall ACCENT Speakers Bureau Albert and Alberta Alec Courtelis Award Dazzlers Florida Blue Key Florida Opportunity Scholars Program Fraternities and sororities Gator Chomp Gator Growl Hillel at UF Marching Band Miss University of Florida President's House Progressive Black Journalists Oral History Program Theatre Strike Force "The Orange and Blue" "We Are the Boys" University of Florida ROTC

Media	The Independent Florida Alligator Subtropics WUFT TV WUFT FM / WJUF WRUF AM WRUF FM WRUF LD University Press of Florida

Campus	List of buildings Baughman Center Century Tower Constans Theatre Cooperative Living Organization Florida Gymnasium J. Wayne Reitz Union Lake Alice Murphree Area Museum of Natural History Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Plaza of the Americas RTS Campus Service Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Southwest Recreation Center Student housing The Hub University Auditorium University of Florida Campus Historic District Yulee Area

University of Florida Gainesville, Florida

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