Davenport CitiBus is the transit agency serving Davenport

Davenport, Iowa

Davenport is a city located along the Mississippi River in Scott County, Iowa, United States. Davenport is the county seat of and largest city in Scott County. Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk...

, Iowa

Iowa

Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

. USA. CitiBus has a total of twenty vehicles and covers approximately 30 square miles (77.7 km²) of the city. CitiBus connects with both Bettendorf Transit and the Illinois Quad Cities

Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a group of five cities straddling the Mississippi River on the Iowa–Illinois boundary. These cities, Davenport and Bettendorf and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline , are the center of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, which, as of 2010, had an estimated population of...

mass transit system, MetroLINK.

History

Public transit appeared in Davenport in 1969 when the city of Davenport created a City Transit Authority. The authority at first provided monetary support to Davenport City Lines Bus Company which was a privately owned company. After a few years the city purchased the Davenport City Lines and placed the operation of public transportation under the jurisdiction of the City's Department of Municipal Transportation. Today, CitiBus is a division of the Department of Public Works. In 2009, Citibus saw a ridership of 1,125,511 customers.

Route list

• 2 Marquette
• 4 Brady/Harrison
• 5 Northpark
• 6 Northwest
• 7 Bridgeline
• 9 Hickory Grove
• 10 River Brady
• 11 Goose Creek Heights
• 12 Kimberly/Elmore/Bettendorf
• 13 Southwest Loop
• 14 Jersey Ridge
• 15 West Loop
• 22 West Kimberly

External links

• Davenport Citibus