10-year Plan for Transit System

An overview of how the city of Laramie’s challenges to expanding its bus system Photo by Marcus Kopp The city of Laramie has identified serious issues within the city’s current transit systems, including more routes to the University of Wyoming. After discussion and a survey, the city has decided to adopt a 10-year plan to expand the transportation system to address these gaps in service. “The city wanted a plan to fill the gaps where service isn’t necessarily available in Laramie,” said University of Wyoming Director of Transportation Paul Krunkel. “Our current budget for transit, it’s around 3.5 million. With all said and done, the operating costs of what this would look like 10 years would be, 7.5 to 8 million [dollar] operating costs a year. So, it’d be substantial, and I’m glad they’ve put together a phase plan, so we’re not putting it all together at once.

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