Via Rideshare Expansion Among City’s Latest Efforts to Enhance Regional Mobility
By Office of Communication
Posted on February 25, 2020, February 25, 2020

The City’s Via Rideshare service area expanded once again in January, making affordable, on-demand public transportation accessible to even more residents, employees and visitors in The American Dream City.

The Via Rideshare service, which first launched in December 2017, aligns with the Arlington City Council priority to Enhance Regional Mobility.

In addition to increasing Via’s fleet of six-passenger Mercedes Metris vans from 15 to up to 28, the service area now extends to the southeast city limits to reach destinations that include the Tarrant County College Southeast campus and the Interstate 20 at Park Springs Park and Ride lot. The expanded service area now encompasses approximately 41 percent of the city’s land area. This area includes approximately 191,000 people, which is 49 percent of Arlington’s total population, as well as 89,400 jobs, which is 65 percent of the total jobs in the city.

You can learn more about Via and other mobility improvements, including an update on the final phase of the Abram Street Rebuild and the Cooper Street Smart Mobility Corridor Project, in the latest edition of the Enhance Regional Mobility newsletter.

All quarterly City Council priority newsletters are now produced in a digital formal, allowing for layers of additional video content and important links.

All quarterly City Council priority newsletters are now produced in a digital formal, allowing for layers of additional video content and important links.

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