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Rapid City Rapid Ride

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Rapid Ride
Headquarters300 Sixth Street
LocaleRapid City, SD
Service typebus service, paratransit
Routes5
Websiterapidride.org

Rapid City Rapid Ride is the provider of mass transportation in the City of Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota providing fixed route bus service since 1992. Five scheduled bus routes operate Monday through Saturday at 30 minutes intervals. Dial-A-Ride provides ADA paratransit service for qualified customers. City View Trolley is a replica trolley service.

Regular bus routes

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  • Borglum
  • Jefferson
  • Lincoln
  • Roosevelt
  • Washington
  • Coolidge

Each route starts and ends at the Milo Barber Transportation Center near 6th and Omaha in downtown Rapid City, and consists of two different laps. All the routes except Coolidge start on the half-hour.

Milo Barber Transportation Center

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The Milo Barber Transportation Center, located at 333 6th Street, serves as the primary hub for Rapid Ride, as well as an intercity bus stop for Jefferson Lines. The facility was constructed in 1980 and reopened after renovations on May 26, 2011.[1][2]

Fixed Route Ridership

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The ridership and service statistics shown here are of fixed route services only and do not include demand response. Per capita statistics are based on the Rapid City urbanized area as reported in NTD data. The reduction in per capita ridership from 2010 to 2011 is a result of the 2010 census numbers replacing the 2000 census numbers.[3]

Ridership Change Ridership per capita
2002 109,987 n/a 1.65
2005 174,947 n/a 2.62
2006 192,422 Increase9.99% 2.88
2007 217,540 Increase13.05% 3.26
2008 250,522 Increase15.16% 3.75
2009 232,179 Decrease7.32% 3.48
2010 256,196 Increase10.34% 3.84
2011 310,121 Increase21.05% 3.82
2013 304,599 n/a 3.75
2014 287,623 Decrease5.57% 3.54
2015 291,026 Increase1.18% 3.58
2016 295,060 Increase1.39% 3.63
2017 348,210 Increase18.01% 4.29
2018 369,697 Increase6.17% 4.55
2019 418,085 Increase13.09% 5.15
2020 213,004 Decrease49.05% 2.62
2021 162,083 Decrease23.91% 1.99

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2022 Rapid City Transit Development Plan" (PDF). Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  2. ^ Kayla Gahagan (May 25, 2011). "City officially reopens transit center Thursday". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  3. ^ "The National Transit Database (NTD)". Retrieved June 27, 2022.
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