Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date:          August 16, 2007

Contact:    Joanne Mahnken, Marketing Officer

Phone:      (304) 296-3680

NEW BUS ROUTE TO START FRIDAY

 Morgantown, WV- Mountain Line Transit Authority announced a new bus route serving the West Run housing complex to start Friday, August 17, 2007. Due to Friday’s move-in schedule, the first 20 run will begin at 1:00 p.m. 

The West Run bus (Route 30) will operate Monday through Friday, 7:40 am through 5:40 p.m., with additional late night service from 9:00 p.m. through 3:00 a.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings during WVU Regular Semesters. This 20 minute round-trip route begins at the West Run housing complex and serves a portion of Stewartstown Road, Hampton Center, Stewart Street and Sunnyside and WVU's Life Sciences Building.

Connections with the Blue & Gold, Red Line and Gold Line provide trips to the Evansdale and Suncrest areas of Morgantown as well as connections to Downtown Morgantown and the Mountain Line Depot on Garrett Street.

            All Mountain Line current schedules and maps are available on WWW.BUSRIDE.ORG. For more information about Mountain Line Transit Authority, call 291-RIDE (291-7433) or visit their web page at WWW.BUSRIDE.ORG.

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