Southeast Vermont Transit


Southeast Vermont Transit is a local bus operator serving Windham County, Vermont, southern Windsor County, and parts of southern Bennington County. Three Brattleboro local routes and ten regional routes to the north are branded as The Current; five regional routes and eight ski resort circulator routes to the west are branded as MOOver. The agency was formed in July 2015 by the merger of the Deerfield Valley Transit Association and Connecticut River Transit.

History

The Deerfield Valley Transit Association was formed in mid-1996 as a 501 non-profit organization to provide bus service to condos at Mount Snow. The service was branded as "MOOver", with buses painted to resemble Holstein cows. Operation began in November 1996; on December 20, 1999, the system was expanded to serve Readsboro, Wardsboro, East Dover, and Whitingham.
In 2003, Town and Village Bus, which operated the Beeline local bus service in Brattleboro and several regional routes, went out of business. The DVTA was contracted to temporarily operate the routes; the town began operating the Beeline later that year, while the regional routes were transferred to the newly-formed Connecticut River Transit nonprofit. The DVTA began operating service between Wilmington and Brattleboro on October 19, 2004.
In late 2010, CRT took over the Beeline system from the town. Construction of a DVTA maintenance facility in Wilmington, first planned in 2002, began in April 2014 and was completed in 2015. In September 2013, the DVTA began managing the CRT service. On September 6, 2014, the two operators announced plans to merge into Southeast Vermont Transit. The process, under which CRT was dissolved and its assets transferred to DVTA, was completed on July 1, 2015. The former DVTA routes retained the MOOver brand, while the former CRT routes retained their branding as The Current.

Service

MOOver

MOOver runs five year-round services, which serve the Deerfield Valley primarily along the Route 9 and Route 100 corridors:
Eight circulator routes are operated during the winter ski season to serve the areas around the Mount Snow resort. All MOOver routes are fare free.

The Current

The Current operates six local and regional routes, primarily along Route 5 in the Connecticut River Valley, and along Route 11 and Route 103 to the west:
Four additional express routes serve the Upper Valley area primarily along I-91, including Hanover and Lebanon, New Hampshire:
Three local circulator routes - Blue, Red, and White - serve Brattleboro and surrounding towns, including Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Routes 1, 2, 55, 57, and 61 are fare-free; route 61 is seasonal. The Current also operates dial-a-ride service. The Current operations facility is in Rockingham north of Bellows Falls.