
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 17, 1993                   TAG: 9311170105
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV12   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

BLACKSBURG TRANSIT HONORED

Blacksburg Transit has received an Outstanding Public Transportation System Achievement Award from the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation. The transit system was honored Monday during a meeting of the state Transportation Board.

Mayor Roger Hedgepeth and Blacksburg Transit General Manager Michael Connelly accepted the award for the town, which was recognized as the outstanding urban-rural transit system in Virginia.

Alexandria Transit received the award for the outstanding urbanized system.

Blacksburg Transit operates a 26-bus, fixed-route service that includes a route to Christiansburg. Over the past year, Blacksburg Transit:

Provided 1.6 million passenger trips, a 3 percent increase over the previous year.

Saw 8 percent more passenger revenue.

Implemented a Quality First program.

Began a campus circulator route that became so successful that it was expanded to a route system.

by CNB