NDOT and Salt Lake Express Launch New Transit Service Connecting Northern Nevada and Las Vegas

Courtesy Nevada Department of Transportation

A new bus service that began this week and provides transit service from Reno to Las Vegas will include stops in Fernley and several other rural communities.

The daily bus service began Monday, launched by the Nevada Department of Transportation and Salt Lake Express.

Operated by Salt Lake Express, daily round-trip bus service will connect Reno with Fallon, Fernley and Las Vegas via U.S. 95 and Interstate 80. The bus will pick up from the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Amtrak station and Centennial Plaza bus terminal in Sparks and offer stops in Fernley, Fallon, Hawthorne, Tonopah, Beatty, Pahrump and McCarran International Airport and Greyhound bus station in Las Vegas.

Ticket pricing and reservations are available at SaltLakeExpress.com or by calling (800) 356-9796. 

Routes will also be offered between Elko and Salt Lake City, Utah and Twin Falls, Idaho. 

Cumulatively, the routes are projected to serve as many as 18,250 trips during the first year. With the goal of expanding regional intercity transit and increasing mobility, the routes were identified in part by public feedback provided during the development of NDOT’s Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan. Nearly 70 percent of Nevadans polled cited such intercity transit connecting Nevada’s rural areas to services in larger urban and metropolitan cities as a top transit priority.

The new bus services are part of the approximately $10 million in Federal Transit Administration funds NDOT administers annually to support rural public transportation connecting Nevadans to employment, recreation, medical services and more. Trips are frequently provided from the rural areas to larger urban areas where additional services are offered.