Rapid City Rapid Ride

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.

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

Regular bus routes
  • 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.

City View Trolley

The City View Trolley[1] runs in the summertime around Rapid City and provides a recorded spoken tour and access to points of interest around Rapid City, including Dinosaur Hill, the Journey Museum, the Stavekirke ("pole-church"), and Storybook Island.

Milo Barber Transportation Center

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.[2][3]

Fixed Route Ridership

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.[4]

RidershipChangeRidership per capita
2002 109,987n/a1.65
2005 174,947n/a2.62
2006 192,422Increase09.99%2.88
2007 217,540Increase013.05%3.26
2008 250,522Increase015.16%3.75
2009 232,179Decrease07.32%3.48
2010 256,196Increase010.34%3.84
2011 310,121Increase021.05%3.82
2013 304,599n/a3.75
2014 287,623Decrease05.57%3.54
2015 291,026Increase01.18%3.58
2016 295,060Increase01.39%3.63
2017 348,210Increase018.01%4.29
2018 369,697Increase06.17%4.55
2019 418,085Increase013.09%5.15
2020 213,004Decrease049.05%2.62
2021 162,083Decrease023.91%1.99

See also

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


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