The Brazos Transit District , branded as The District , is the primary provider of mass transportation in a 16-county area of East Texas . The agency was established in 1974 as the Brazos Valley Transit Authority, with the primary purpose of providing fixed routes for Bryan and College Station , plus rural demand response service. Today, two separate urban areas feature fixed routes, Paratransit, Demand and Response plus a series of commuter buses for several Houston suburbs. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 354,400, or about 1,800 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
5-741: The Brazos Transit District was founded in 1974 to serve a seven-county area in the Brazos Valley in Texas. Federal Transit Administration Region VI—a federal administrative area including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas—awarded the District Transit System of the Year for 2022. The heart of The District's services, the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area features seven local routes, serving as part of
10-489: A two-tiered transportation strategy along with bus services provided for students by Texas A&M University . A city loop is provided in the small city of Cleveland . The interconnected cities of Liberty and Dayton featured a varied fixed route service, which at different times loops through each of the two cities, with occasional services that connect the two municipalities. The small industrial city of Lufkin features five local routes, including one that extends to
15-500: Is a region of the U.S. state of Texas comprising the following 7 counties in Central Texas : Brazos , Burleson , and Robertson (which collectively comprise the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area), and the neighboring counties of Grimes , Leon , Madison , and Washington . The area is centered on Brazos County, the cities of College Station and Bryan , and Texas A&M University . The Brazos River lies at
20-487: The center of the region; however, not all areas of the region are a part of the Brazos drainage basin . The Brazos Valley Council of Governments represents the collective interests of the local governments in the region. The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History maintains collections in the fields of archaeology , botany , conchology , cultural history , geology , mammalogy , ornithology , and paleontology in
25-602: The town of Diboll . The agricultural center of Nacogdoches includes four local routes, three of which provide some form of service to SFA State University. This article related to bus transportation in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about transportation in Texas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brazos Valley Brazos Valley ( / ˈ b r æ z ə s / BRAZ -əs )
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