Press Release
Mountain Line h 420 DuPont Road h
For Immediate Release
Date: September 11, 2009
Contact: Maria Smith, Marketing Officer
Phone: (304) 296-3680
Morgantown, WV-Next week is Transportation Week at WVU and Mountain Line is challenging WVU to ride. Ride the Mountain Line local bus routes beginning Monday September 14th at 12:01AM to Wednesday the 16th at midnight and the top four WVU students, faculty or staff with the highest ridership during that period of time will win cash on their Mountie Bounty Card. The person with the highest ridership (defined by the amount of trips using their WVU ID Card) in the allotted time will win $50, second place will win $25, third place will win $15 and fourth will win $10. The winners will be announced Thursday September 17th at 1:00 pm in the Mountainlair in front of Hatfields where Mountain Line will have an information table set up all day. Remember WVU students faculty and staff always ride free with a valid WVU ID. For more information about Transportation Week go to transportation.wvu.edu. A complete set of rules and more information about the Ride The Bus and Win! competition is at www.busride.org.
Trip planning on public transportation around Morgantown has been made easier, go to WWW.BUSRIDE.ORG and click on “Trip Planner” to use the new Google Transit Trip Planner. For more information about the Mountain Line Transit Authority, call 291-RIDE (7433), visit the website at WWW.BUSRIDE.ORG or join us on Facebook.
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