RANDOLPH — Stagecoach Transportation Services is changing its name to reflect its role as part of a broader transit system across central Vermont.
It will now be known as Tri-Valley Transit, the name of the Middlebury, Vt.-based nonprofit with which it merged in 2017. TVT also runs Addison County Transit Resources, which began a partnership with Stagecoach in 2014, and will also be known as Tri-Valley Transit.
“Retaining blue from the ACTR logo and orange from Stagecoach gives a nod to the long history of the organizations,” TVT Executive Director Jim Moulton said about a new TVT logo in a news release this week. “Vermont’s terrain and our transportation-based mission are reflected in the graphic of a mountain with a forward arrow.”
Founded in 1976, Stagecoach serves Orange and northern Windsor counties and includes routes into Lebanon and Hanover.
Tri-Valley Transit will continue to have regional offices in Middlebury and Stagecoach’s location in Randolph.
Work is also about to start on a $3.6 million Upper Valley Community Transportation Center at the Bradford, Vt., Park & Ride, which will serve as the depot for Stagecoach’s Bradford Area Circulator and River Route lines, which in 2018 carried about 18,000 riders from northern Orange County to employers in White River Junction, Hanover and Lebanon, including stops at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
TVT now serves 50 towns across a 2,400 square mile stretch of central Vermont, the news release said.
ACTR and Stagecoach logos will remain on most buses for awhile, but the system will now be known as Tri-Valley Transit and bus drivers will get new logos for their uniforms this fall, according to the news release.
John P. Gregg can be reached at jgregg@vnews.com.