The leader of the Downtown Transportation Coalition, a group of downtown businesses pushing for better public transportation, says all eyes are now focused on the Greenville County Council.
The Greenville Transit Authority has been awarded an $11 million federal grant to build a new maintenance facility, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
Greenville City Council is considering allocating some of the city's more than $6 million budget surplus for affordable housing and public transportation.
Greenlink has a plan that would roughly double the size of Greenlink — increasing the frequency and number of routes. But it comes with a cost. If everything in the plan is done, the bus system’s annual operating cost would more than triple and capital costs would exceed $55 million.
Beginning this summer, residents in Alta Vista, West Greenville, Southernside and Hampton-Pinckney neighborhoods will be able to jump on a trolley to get around downtown and to some of the city’s most popular tourist attractions.