Brownsville Urban System
Encyclopedia
The Brownsville Urban System, or "BUS" for short, is a mass transit system based in and serving Brownsville, TX. It is currently the largest mass transit system in the Rio Grande Valley
, TX, and is the only mass transit system in Cameron County, TX.
BUS operates 15 fixed routes:
Rio Grande Valley
The Rio Grande Valley or the Lower Rio Grande Valley, informally called The Valley, is an area located in the southernmost tip of South Texas...
, TX, and is the only mass transit system in Cameron County, TX.
Terminals
- Market Square Terminal - Main downtown terminal which serves the majority of the routes
- Northside Transfer Station - Built early 2006 as a means of expanding BUS mass transit service to North Brownsville and its surrounding cities
- Sunrise Mall - The terminus for four routes
Routes
- 1 - Westend
- 2 - Jefferson/Central - Serves Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville
- 3 - Rockwell
- 4 - Los Ebanos
- 5 - Alton Gloor - Serves Valley Regional Medical Center
- 6 - Southmost
- 7 - Billy Mitchell - Serves the Brownsville/South Padre Island International AirportBrownsville/South Padre Island International Airport-Cargo:The airport is the largest air cargo handling airport in the Rio Grande Valley.Pan American Airways and World-Wide Consolidated Logistics, Inc. will open cargo service to Latin America in 2011. A TSA Certified Cargo Screening Facility is being established by World-Wide Consolidated...
- 8 - Lemon
- 9 - Austin - Serves the Brownsville Public Utilities BoardBrownsville Public Utilities BoardThe Brownsville Public Utilities Board, or Brownsville PUB, is the main utility company in the city of Brownsville, Texas. It is the largest of three electric providers in the city of Brownsville, as well as the largest water provider for the city.Its electric division is currently the only city...
Main Office - 11 - OPI (Old Port Isabel)
- 13 - Sunrise Mall
- 14 - ITECC Campus
- 20 - North
- 30 - Southeast
- 31 - Brownsville/La Paloma
Former Routes
- Amigoland - Service from Downtown Brownsville to the former Amigoland Mall, now part of The University of Texas at Brownsville.
- Crosstown - Service from East Brownsville to West Brownsville via Boca Chica Blvd. This was one of the few routes in BUS history not to depart from a main terminal.
- Trolley Service - Provided narrated trolley service departing from the Brownsville Visitor's Center on Ruben Torres Sr. Blvd and had scheduled stops at several city points, including Gladys Porter ZooGladys Porter ZooGladys Porter Zoo is a zoological and botanical park located in Brownsville, Texas. The zoo officially opened on September 3, 1971, and currently averages 375,000 visitors annually. Situated on , the zoo houses about 400 animal species and over 250 tropical and neo-tropical species and subspecies...
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Fleet
- 17 - GilligGilligGillig Corporation, formerly Gillig Bros., is a manufacturer of heavy-duty low-floor transit buses located in Hayward, California. Prior to 1993, Gillig had also been a manufacturer of school buses.-History:...
"Phantom" - 10 - GilligGilligGillig Corporation, formerly Gillig Bros., is a manufacturer of heavy-duty low-floor transit buses located in Hayward, California. Prior to 1993, Gillig had also been a manufacturer of school buses.-History:...
"Low Floor" - 2 - 1992 Replica TrolleysTourist trolleyA tourist trolley, also called a road trolley, is a rubber-tired bus , which is made to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram....
- 4 - ElDorado NationalElDorado NationalElDorado National is a bus manufacturer owned by Thor Industries. Heavy-duty buses are built in Riverside, California, and cutaway buses and mobility vans are built in Salina, Kansas.-Products:* Aerotech and similar lines of cutaway buses...
"EZ Rider"
Facts
- BUS does not operate on Sundays and some major holidays, such as ChristmasChristmasChristmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
and Independence DayIndependence Day (United States)Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain...
. - BUS serves more than 1.5 million passengers a year. In 2002, BUS served 1,631,349 passengers in its fixed-route bus service and 54,526 passengers in its paratransit services.