Lextran, the Lexington public transit system, announced a new seasonal downtown service called “LexRide” on April 2.
According to the Lextran website, the service will run from April through October...
Lextran will provide free rides to passengers, including students, on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, as a form of gratitude to its customers.
According to Lextran, the routes provided on Thanksgiving...
“Now approaching the steps,” booms over the speakers.
The bus seats are filled with students and backpacks, professors and briefcases, healthcare workers with name tags clipped on their shirts...
Consider campus like a micro-city. To a passionate urbanist, it would be a paradise — interlocked structures with residence, retail, food service and public goods mingling in open air.
The every necessity...
The federal government awarded Lextran, a public transportation system that serves Lexington, a $3 million grant to purchase 10 environment-friendly vehicles for its fleet.
In a press release on Tuesday,...
Lextran employees who operate the buses on and around UK’s campus say the buses are not being properly sanitized to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and that campus buses are not cleaned as often as city...
Students boarding a Lextran bus in February may have noticed a new addition—a seat reserved for Rosa Parks.The reserved seats started on Parks’ birthday, Feb. 4, to honor her actions and “remind...
When I got on the bus in front of my apartment on Monday, I took a seat behind Rosa Parks.Well, the seat reserved for her, anyway. Since then, everyday this week, I have watched Lextran buses throughout...
If you’re like me and hate driving, you’re always looking for the best ways to get around the city and campus while avoiding parking permits and getting behind the wheel.The most obvious alternative...
Lextran and UK need to work together to put more buses on the road for students who live off-campus.Route 15 buses during the semester take anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes to pick up people after the afternoon...
Beginning Monday, people on the streets of Lexington will have the option to hop on a new set of wheels for just $1.Bright orange bicycles with 26-inch wheels, which now dot the streets of downtown Lexington,...
UPDATE: The driver of a Lextran bus that collided with cars parked along Limestone Monday afternoon possibly had a medical incident that caused him to briefly faint or pass out, Lexington police said.Around...
