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La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility
The La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility or MTU is the primary provider of mass transportation in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Using 21 buses, eleven regular routes are provided from Monday through Friday. On Saturdays, the MTU runs six routes, and five routes on Sundays. History Public transit in La Crosse began with the opening of a horse-drawn streetcar line in 1879. Over time, more streetcar lines were added and in 1893, all streetcars had been electrified. Beginning in the early 20th century however, increasing car ownership led to a decline of the privately run streetcar system. As a result, buses began to replace streetcars throughout the city and by November 1945, the last streetcar line closed. The City of La Crosse took over operations of the buses in 1975 from the Mississippi Valley Public Service Company, as the buses could no longer be operated profitably. In 1945, in the first timetable after streetcar service had ended, there were four bus routes. The earliest bus left at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Crosse, Wisconsin
La Crosse ( ) is a city in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city forms the core of the La Crosse–Onalaska, La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area, which includes all of La Crosse County and Houston County, Minnesota, with a population of 139,627. La Crosse's economy serves as a regional educational, medical, manufacturing, and transportation hub for Western Wisconsin producing a List of cities by GDP, gross domestic product (GDP) of $9.7 billion as of 2022. The city is a college town with nearly 20,000 students and is home to the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, Viterbo University, and Western Technical College. Furthermore, the La Crosse area is home to the headquarters or regional offices of Kwik Trip, Organic Valley, Mayo Clinic, Gundersen Health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scenic Mississippi Regional Transit
Scenic Mississippi Regional Transit or SMRT is a commuter bus system serving the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. It provides four routes which serve Crawford County, La Crosse County, Monroe County and Vernon County. It was recognized by Wisconsin Rural Partners as one of Wisconsin’s Top Rural Development Initiatives in 2017. Services The transit system operates four routes. Each route runs 3 times per day, except the yellow route, which operates 4 times per day. There is no service on weekends.The routes are as follows: *Blue Route: La Crosse - Viroqua *Green Route: La Crosse - Tomah *Red Route: La Crosse - Prairie du Chien *Yellow Route: La Crosse - Viroqua In 2017, a study was conducted on providing service to Arcadia, however, no service has begun. Service to Cashton was proposed in the 2021 La Crosse Regional Transit Development Plan. Communities Served *Crawford County ** De Soto ** Ferryville ** Lynxville ** Prairie du Chien *La Crosse County ** La Crosse ** West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Transportation In Wisconsin
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter#Other usages, charter purposes, or through private ownership. Although the average bus carries between 30 and 100 passengers, some buses have a capacity of up to 300 passengers. The most common type is the single-deck bus, single-deck rigid bus, with double-decker bus, double-decker and articulated buses carrying larger loads, and midibuses and minibuses carrying smaller loads. coach (vehicle), Coaches are used for longer-distance services. Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus, are free. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bus Transit Systems In The United States
The following is a list of presently-operating bus transit systems in the United States with regular service. The list excludes charter buses, private bus operators, paratransit systems, and trolleybus systems. Figures for daily ridership, number of vehicles, and daily vehicle revenue miles are accurate as of 2009 and come from the FTA National Transit Database. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming See also * List of United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Intercity Bus Stops In Wisconsin
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badger Bus
The Badger Bus is an intercity bus service operating mainly in Wisconsin by Badger Coaches, Inc. It also offers charters and tours, and operates school buses under contract. History Founded in 1920 by Herman E. Meier to provide service between Madison and Monroe, Wisconsin, the company expanded after it was granted permission in 1946 to provide service between Madison and Milwaukee. The company may have also been known as Badger Tour and Travel. In 2023, Badger Bus lost a contract with the Madison Metropolitan School District to transport its students in school buses. Routes Badger Bus mainly provides intercity service from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Madison, Wisconsin. Badger Bus also provides weekend service from Madison to Minneapolis, Whitewater, and Eau Claire. Fleet As of 2015, Badger Bus has 140 vehicles with a combined capacity of 7,000 people.{{rp, 37 The Badger Bus fleet consists of several buses: *Blue Bird Vision *IC Bus See also * List of intercity bus sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megabus (North America)
Megabus is an intercity bus service operating in the United States and Canada. It is also the operator of the Virginia Breeze bus service. History On April 10, 2006, Stagecoach Group, operator of Megabus (Europe), introduced the Megabus brand in the United States through its Coach USA subsidiary with routes in the Midwestern United States. In August 2007, Megabus introduced service to Arizona and California using Coach America as a contractor. Ridership was sluggish and in early 2008, Megabus discontinued services in Arizona and California. In late May 2008, Megabus began service to/from New York City, with service to/from Albany, New York, Albany, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Toronto and Washington, D.C. Further expansions included service to Syracuse, New York, Syracuse, Rochester, New York, Rochester, Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Megabus returned to the West Coast on December 12, 2012, initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson Lines
Jefferson Lines (JL or JLI) is a regional intercity bus company operating in 14 states in the Midwest and the West of the United States. History The company is operated by Jefferson Partners L.P., located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jefferson Partners also conducts charter bus service within Minneapolis and Billings for large group travel. The company is the second-largest bus company in the United States that operates from fixed stations. Jefferson was founded in 1919 during the early days of motorcoach travel. The company's name originates from the Jefferson Highway, a north–south route in the early National Auto Trail system that once ran from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, south to New Orleans, Louisiana. Jefferson expanded south of Kansas City in 1966, when it purchased Crown Coach. By 1990, the company was believed to be the second-largest intercity bus company in the country after Continental Trailways was bought by Greyhound Lines. Jefferson went through bankruptcy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Crosse Station
La Crosse station is an Amtrak intercity train station in La Crosse, Wisconsin, served by the daily ''Borealis (train), Borealis'' and ''Empire Builder''. The station was built in 1926–27 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), replacing an older station that burned in 1916. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Depot and was renovated in 2001. History Original station The La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad opened between its namesake cities in 1858, followed by the St. Paul and Milwaukee in 1867. Through mergers, both became part of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) by 1874. The 1858-built station was replaced by in 1878 by the Cameron House, a combined depot and hotel located near La Crosse Commercial Historic District, downtown La Crosse. By 1910, La Crosse was served by six daily round trips on the Chicago–Milwaukee–Minneap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proterra (bus Manufacturer)
Proterra Inc. was an American electric vehicle and powertrain manufacturer based in Burlingame, California. The company designed and manufactured battery electric transit buses, powertrain systems for other heavy-duty vehicle builders and charging systems for fleets of heavy-duty vehicles. Founded in 2004, it became a public company in June 2021. The company delivered 199 new transit buses and battery systems for 1,229 vehicles in 2022. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2023. In November, its assets were split into three divisions and sold off. The Proterra Powered powertrain manufacturing business line will operate as an independent company within the Volvo Group. The transit bus manufacturing business line was sold to Phoenix Motorcars. The Proterra Energy business line which built charging systems for fleets of heavy-duty vehicles was purchased by Cowen Equity. History Proterra was founded in Golden, Colorado by Dale Hill in 2004. Hill had previously fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Crosse County, Wisconsin
La Crosse County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At the 2020 census, the county's population was 120,784. Its county seat is the city of La Crosse. La Crosse County is included in the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 170,341 and is the most populous county on Wisconsin's western border. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (5.9%) is water. Major highways * Interstate 90 * U.S. Highway 14 * U.S. Highway 53 * U.S. Highway 61 * Highway 16 (Wisconsin) * Highway 33 (Wisconsin) * Highway 35 (Wisconsin) * Highway 108 (Wisconsin) * Highway 157 (Wisconsin) * Highway 162 (Wisconsin) Railroads *Amtrak *BNSF *Canadian Pacific *La Crosse station Buses * La Crosse MTU *Scenic Mississippi Regional Transit Airport * LSE - La Crosse Regional Airport Adjacent counties * Trempealeau County - northwest * Jackson County - northeast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillig Low Floor
The Gillig Low Floor (originally named Gillig H2000LF and also nicknamed Gillig Advantage) is a transit bus manufactured by Gillig since 1997. Introduced as a second product range by the company (alongside the Gillig Phantom), the Low Floor later replaced the Phantom entirely. Since 2008, the model line has become the sole vehicle platform produced by Gillig. The Low Floor was the second low-floor bus design introduced in the United States, following the New Flyer Low Floor. During the 2000s, the configuration came into wide use by transit operators in place of previous high-floor designs. Along with several lengths and body styles, the Low Floor is offered with several different powertrain options, including options for diesel engines, diesel-electric hybrid, compressed natural gas, and battery-electric powertrains. The Low Floor is currently assembled by Gillig at its Livermore, California facility; prior to 2017, the vehicle was assembled in Hayward, California. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
