Greater Richmond Transit Company

GRTC bus operating along the GRTC Pulse bus rapid transit line

As a public service company, GRTC is owned equally by the City of Richmond and neighboring Chesterfield County. Henrico and Hanover counties currently purchase services from it, but hold no ownership interest.

It is managed by a private transit management company that provides the CEO, COO, and Transportation Manager, as was its predecessor, Virginia Transit Company (VTC). GRTC itself has 400 employees.

Immediately after GRTC was formed, American Transportation Enterprises, Inc., through a subsidiary, continued to provide management.

163 transit vehicles, 96 CARE vehicles, and 27 support vehicles (vans, wreckers, trucks, SUVs, etc)
96 fixed route transit vehicles use CNG fuel
88 CARE vehicles use CNG fuel [4]

• Currently Routes 28X, 39, 75 and 102X are not in service.

Express buses, run from downtown to various points with few or no stops. They are:

• Stony Point Fashion Park - 64x
• Commonwealth 20 - 82x
• Petersburg - 95x
• Kings Dominion - 102x

Park-and-ride buses have parking lots for commuters. GRTC Park-and-Ride Service is provided for:

• Parham Road - 23, 26
• Glenside Drive - 23, 27
• White Oaks Village - 28
• Gaskins Road - 29

The GRTC Headquarters and bus garage is located near the intersection of Belt Boulevard and Midlothian Turnpike in South Richmond.

• On September 21, 2007, a women was struck by a GRTC bus along 8th and Marshall. The women was seriously injured and would later file charges against GRTC.
• On December 5, 2012, a car rear-ended a GRTC bus and caught fire along Broad Street. One person was sent to the hospital.[7]
• On June 27, 2018, multiple people were injured when an GRTC bus and a car collided head in eastern Henrico County.[8][9][10]
• On July 10, 2018, a GRTC bus collided with a pickup truck when it was making a left-hand turn through the dedicated bus lane on West Broad Street, at the intersection of Broad and N Allen Ave.[11]
• On January 5, 2019, a GRTC bus and an SUV collided along Broad Street. Multiple people were injured.[12]
• On March 5, 2019, a GRTC bus was involved in a minor collision with a car along the intersection of Crutchfield and Roanoke.[13]
• On October 8, 2019, a GRTC bus struck and killed a woman along Broad Street. The driver was also taken to the hospital.[14][15][16]
• On November 11, 2019, a GRTC bus was involved in an head-on collision along West 33rd Street and Midlothian Turnpike. Four people were injured.[17]
• On February 24, 2020, a man attempted to hijack a GRTC bus along Brook Road and Azalea Ave. The man was later arrested.[18][19]
• On May 20, 2020, a driver spun out of control and crashed into a GRTC bus along East Broad Street. The driver of the car was killed and three passengers on the bus were injured.[20]
• During the overnight hours of May 29 into May 30, 2020, rioters vandalized and set fire to a GRTC Pulse bus in Downtown Richmond following protests and riots over the killing of George Floyd. There were no passengers or a driver on board at the time. The bus was destroyed in the ensuing protests.[1][2][3]

• GRTC Pulse

• GRTC website
• Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation website
• Petersburg Area Transit (PAT) Route Map and other information