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Blacksburg Transit (BT)

2800 Commerce Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060
United States
540-443-1500
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Blacksburg Transit
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Blacksburg Transit is the public transportation provider for Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, Christiansburg and parts of Montgomery County in southwest Virginia.

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Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Transit, Virginia Tech to launch new Campus Shuttle route.
The Campus Shuttle route will offer better connectivity to more of the Virginia Tech central campus.
June 21, 2024
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Booth started his career as a bus operator and dispatcher with BT while in college at Virginia Tech.
Aug. 30, 2021
This year’s American Public Transportation Association’s Outstanding Transit System award for North America is Blacksburg Transit (BT). This award recognizes a system that excels...
July 11, 2019
New Flyer of America Inc. has announced that Blacksburg Transit, through the Commonwealth of Virginia, has exercised an option with New Flyer for four Xcelsior clean diesel, sixty...
Nov. 30, 2017
Blacksburg Transit Operations Supervisor, Carissa Nichols, has been accepted into the American Public Transportation Association’s Emerging Leaders Program.
June 30, 2017
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New BT bus design.
The new design will replace the familiar cream background with stripes that Blacksburg Transit has used on the outside of their vehicles since the service began in 1983.
June 15, 2017
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Left to right: Operations Manager Harland Brown, Blacksburg Transit Director Tom Fox.
Blacksburg Transit was recognized with two awards from the Virginia Transit Association at their annual conference.
June 5, 2017
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2017 Paratransit Roadeo winners Scott and Jon.
Two of Blacksburg Transit’s top operators traveled to Lynchburg, Virginia to compete in the State Paratransit Roadeo.
May 4, 2017
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BT 2017 roadeo winners.
BT sent a team of four operators and three mechanics to compete in Roanoke at the State Bus Roadeo on Sunday, April 9.
April 12, 2017
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Fairen Horner and Fiona Rhodes.
Blacksburg Transit (BT) has earned a First Place Award in a national competition for the 2017 Annual American Public Transportation Association (APTA) AdWheel Awards.
March 8, 2017

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One of Blacksburg Transit's existing battery-electric vehicles; the agency purchased five additional battery-electric buses from New Flyer of America in a recently announced contract.
The 35-foot and 60-foot battery-electric buses will join the five electric buses Blacksburg Transit currently has in operation.
April 27, 2022
Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation rolled out two electric transit buses and one electric school bus as part of its week long celebration of Earth Day.
The trio of electric bus launches are part of the entities’ Earth Day celebrations in Oklahoma, Virginia and Texas.
April 22, 2021
Transit employees from across the nation joined efforts in a new video encouraging mask wearing while using public transit.
The agencies have produced a video with “a simple task” request of riders: Wear a mask.
Jan. 8, 2021

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Blacksburg Transit has moved their BT4U call and text service to a new and improved platform, the Twilio app.
Aug. 23, 2016
City of Blacksburg
Fox is a certified planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), a member of the American Planning Association, and a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Tom Fox, deputy general manager of the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) has accepted the position of director of transit for Blacksburg, Virginia. He began his 25 year career...
Oct. 13, 2015
“Time until the next bus arrives” on the Blacksburg Transit system isn’t a guessing game for passengers anymore.A rider with the BT4U app (Blacksburg Transit For You) can find...
May 15, 2015
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Blacksburg Transit delivering rider information by beacons.
“Time until the next bus arrives” on the Blacksburg Transit system isn’t a guessing game for passengers anymore.A rider with the BT4U app (Blacksburg Transit For You) can find...
April 30, 2015
Time until the next bus arrives on the Blacksburg Transit system isn’t a guessing game for passengers anymore.A rider with the BT4U app (Blacksburg Transit For You) can find the...
April 17, 2015
Blacksburg Transit is introducing three new technologies related to the BT4U suite of trip planning tools. These new technologies will help BT learn how customers currently interact...
April 8, 2015
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BT4U is Blacksburg Transit's new mobile phone app allowing users to easily navigate the system.
Blacksburg Transit recently launched the BT4U mobile app for Android and iPhone users.
May 20, 2014