Texarkana Urban Transit District

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Texarkana Urban Transit District
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FoundedOctober 2000
Headquarters818 Elm Street
Locale Texarkana, Texas
Service area Bowie County, Texas
Miller County, Arkansas
Service type bus service
paratransit service
Routes8
Destinations Texarkana, Texas
Texarkana, Arkansas
Nash, Texas
Wake Village, Texas
HubsT-LINE Transit Center (Texarkana, Texas)
Annual ridership191,005 (2022) [1]
Website www.t-linebus.org

The Texarkana Urban Transit District (TUTD) is the primary provider of public transit and paratransit services in the Texarkana metropolitan area, established in October 2000. TUTD is governed by the nine-member Texarkana Urban Transit Board, whose members are representatives of city governments in Texarkana, Texas, Texarkana, Arkansas, Nash, Texas, and Wake Village, Texas. TUTD operates eight fixed-route bus routes — branded as T-LINE — on Monday through Friday, excluding six designated holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. The agency also operates in coordination with the Ark-Tex Council of Governments Rural Public Transit District (ATCOG RTD), which provides connecting services (branded as TRAX) to Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, Red River and Titus counties in Texas, in addition TUTD's primary service area.

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References

  1. "TUTD 2022 Agency Profile" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  2. "The National Transit Database (NTD)" . Retrieved April 24, 2024.

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