The Shreveport Area Transit System, commonly known as SporTran, is a

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system based in

Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, Lo ...

, United States. It runs bus routes in Shreveport and

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, as well as

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service. All bus routes converge at the Intermodal Facility near Downtown Shreveport. The entire system has been

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since 2022. SporTran was established in 1972 after the Shreveport city government purchased an existing private system. The city previously had privately-run

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s and

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es that were gradually replaced with diesel buses by the 1960s. SporTran operates seven days a week on 17 bus routes from 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., with shorter operations on the weekends. As of 2006, SporTran operates night service on five routes (mostly supplementing daytime service after end of service) between 8:00 p.m. and midnight Monday through Saturday with no service on Sundays. SporTran has a fleet of over 50 buses equipped to handle all passengers, including those with disabilities. Their newest buses are equipped with the emission reduction systems and an experimental dual-fuel (Hybrid) bus was placed in service in 2005. Buses are operated by the city governments of Shreveport and Bossier City as well as the Port of Caddo-Bossier; most of its funding is from grants and the state government due to the lack of a municipal funding source. The system has 40 buses powered by

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; all of them were pulled after an empty bus caught fire and exploded in April 2025.

Facilities

Downtown Terminal

:Address: 1237 Murphy St, Shreveport LA 71104 :Coordinates: :Facilities: All routes connect at this downtown bus terminal, which was opened in 1986

Bus Garage

:Address: 1115 Jack Wells Boulevard, Shreveport : :Facilities: ''Shreveport Transit Management'' office and bus maintenance

Routes

References

External links

Official website
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