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New year brings enhanced services to TheBus

 
TheBus is offering new services in Hernando County this year.
TheBus is offering new services in Hernando County this year.
Published Jan. 6, 2016

BROOKSVILLE — With the start of the new year comes expanded services for the Hernando County public transit system, known as TheBus.

The new services, marketed under the slogan Hop on TheBus, include a connection to Pasco County's transit system, a new Green Route providing service to Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport and Technology Center and shorter wait times.

The existing Purple Route will take riders to a connection with Pasco County Public Transportation at the Scheer Commerce Center on Emerald Drive between U.S. 19 and Bachmann Avenue in Hudson. That connection will provide a regional transit system connecting Hernando with Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties.

The new Green Route will include stops at the airport and along Spring Hill Drive, Wiscon Road and California Street, including the Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind, Nature Coast Technical High School, Chocachatti Elementary School, Bayfront Health Brooksville and Pasco-Hernando State College.

Wait times for all routes will be reduced from 75 to 60 minutes.

The changes will increase the number of buses from four to seven, increase the service area from 63 miles to 107 miles, increase the population served from 86,848 to 111,396 and increase the number of manufacturers and industries served from 21 to 78. Fourteen of the county's schools will have access to the enhanced service, compared to nine previously.

The changes will cost the county an additional $319,881 a year. Part of the three-cent gas tax increase enacted by the County Commission last year will pay for the improvements to and operation of TheBus.

For additional information visit hernandobus.com or call (352) 754-4444.