34 Facts About RTC Transit

RTC Transit is the name of the bus system in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Clark County, Nevada.

Citizens Area Transit was formed by the RTC to provide reliable bus service to the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Las Vegas Township, Mesquite, and Laughlin.

North Las Vegas Boulevard had been restriped in spring 2000, which converted what had been a breakdown lane into a dedicated transit lane; RTC subsequently applied for a federal grant in 2002 under the Bus Rapid Transit Initiative.

Later that year, an additional 40 double deck vehicles from Alexander Dennis arrived, and the RTC unveiled a new rapid transit system which uses the new Diesel-Hybrid RTV Streetcar from Wright Group.

The RTC Transit began to receive 45 New Flyer CNG vehicles in late fall 2008.

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The rebranding was completed on January 1,2009 when RTC vehicles started featuring "RTC TRANSIT" along with the normal route destination headers.

RTC Transit faced serious legal issues in 2008 after several car accidents involving bus shelters occurred.

The public demanded that the RTC Transit improve the safety of its shelters, while the RTC Transit stated that there was only so much they could do.

The RTC Transit created a Bus Shelter Advisory Committee, and made studies concerning bus stop safety.

The RTC argued that the fare hikes were due to higher fuel costs, however the largest increase in transit expenditures came from a tripling in capital outlays, rising from $54.

In January 2010, RTC introduced the ACE branding for its bus rapid transit offerings.

In May 2010, RTC Transit rebranded its lines away from the "ACE" name due to a lawsuit from Ace Cab, a local Las Vegas taxi operator; ACE Gold became the Strip and Downtown Express ; ACExpress became Centennial Express, and ACE Green became the Boulder Highway Express.

In 2018, RTC began examining the possibility of installing light rail or enhanced bus rapid transit service along high-ridership routes, particularly the Maryland Parkway corridor.

RTC Transit currently operates 38 routes with 12 routes operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including The Deuce on The Strip.

RTC Transit is the largest outsourced transit operation in the United States, having overtaken the title from the now-defunct Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Long Island Bus service in late 2011.

The RTC Transit board decided that it was best to cancel the award and bring forward a new fresh proposal for bid, and gave Veolia a 1-year extension while the board found a means to obtain a majority to make a decision.

In January 2013, the remaining contractors submitted their final proposals to the board, and on February 14,2013, the RTC Transit voted to award the Sunset Maintenance Facility to Keolis, and the Simmons Maintenance Facility to MV, beating out the original two contractors.

RTC Transit operates a grid-type system within the Las Vegas Valley, which includes the four incorporated cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City; in addition, the remaining service area is in unincorporated Clark County under the Las Vegas Township, which includes Enterprise, Paradise, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor, Whitney and Winchester.

RTC Transit operates special routes for occasions such as sporting events at Sam Boyd Stadium, T-Mobile Arena, and Las Vegas Ballpark.

The RTC Transit decided to abandon their teal and magenta color scheme and adopted a white, blue, and gold scheme with blue stripes with a cat running on a white base, white around the windows, moving the CAT logo to just above the first window on either side, under the windshield, and on the engine door.

Once they arrived, the RTC Transit approved a variant to the livery and instead of having just blue stripes, it became blue and gold alternating stripes with the logos in the same positions.

The RTC Transit then started repainting coaches with this new variant, leaving the already painted coaches with the 1st variant.

In 2005, the RTC Transit again changed the livery, returning to the first "mountains" livery design using the new color scheme, extending the shapes to the bottom of the vehicle.

Later in 2005, the RTC Transit received its shipment of 50 double deck Alexander Dennis Enviro500 vehicles, painted in a third "goldbug" livery.

Originally limited to the double deckers, the RTC Transit decided to adopt the "goldbug" scheme for new fleet purchases starting in 2006.

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For non-double deck vehicles, the CAT logo remained above the windows, but the RTC Transit logo was added to the position where the CAT logo was in 1992.

In 2008, the RTC Transit made a variant of the "goldbug" livery which had the CAT logo removed and replaced by a special RTC Transit logo only used on these buses.

South Strip Transfer Terminal, owned by the RTC Transit, is located just south of McCarran Airport on Sunset Rd.

The RTC closed the aging terminal on November 7,2010, with the grand opening of the Bonneville Transit Center.

Bonneville RTC Transit Center is a transit terminal that was built to replace the aging Downtown Transportation Center as the main downtown terminal for local fixed route service.

Westcliff RTC Transit Center is a transit terminal built in the valley's west side community of Summerlin.

UNLV RTC Transit Center is a transit terminal built on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus in Central Las Vegas.

Downtown Summerlin RTC Transit Facility serves Downtown Summerlin as well as Las Vegas Ballpark and City National Arena.

RTC Transit punched the door glass, boarded, and took control while the bus driver jumped off for safety.