The Las Cruces RoadRUNNER Transit has seen an increase in the amount of people using its services since August of last year, topping 60,000 trips in August of this year, the highest its numbers have ever been.

With its numbers increasing and the city growing, Las Cruces Transit Administrator Mike Bartholomew said Tuesday that improvements are being made to the RoadRUNNER Transit that includes an federally funded project worth more than $2 million.

Bartholomew said this project includes building a new RoadRUNNER Transit inter-modal transportation site on the southwest corner of Lohman Avenue and Alameda Boulevard that will hopefully be completed in 3 to 4 years.

Bartholomew said the RoadRUNNER Transit is also “trying to get an improved service route.”   Bartholomew said this route will include the RoadRUNNER Transit switching from forty minute headways to clock-face headways. Bartholomew said instead of buses going by every forty minutes, the buses will instead go by every hour or thirty minutes to make it easier for its customers to remember.

“We are trying to produce a nicer transit schedule for our customers,” Bartholomew said.

Bartholomew also said RoadRUNNER Transit is working on the building of more bus stop shelters, as well as increasing its current number of 16 fixed route buses.

RoadRUNNER Transit customer Elaine, who declined to give her last name, said of the transit system, “I am delighted at the buses in use now, especially the buses’ accessibility to the handicapped.”

For more information concerning the RoadRUNNER Transit routes and schedule call 541-2500, or visit the City of Las Cruces website at www.las-cruces.org.