City-wide Youth MTU Scavenger Hunt

 

Join the City of La Crosse MTU, youth agencies, and local organizations for a City-Wide Summer Ride event. Youth organizations are challenged to visit various locations around the city of La Crosse  while naviagating the MTU. Groups will end at a  local ice cream shop to celebrate!

Bus fare is FREE for all youth this day, regardless of participation.

 TUESDAY,  JULY 7

NOON to 4:00 PM

This  event  is  for  youth  ages 11+  participating  with a community organization.  To sign up, please  email Andy Kiel at akiel@lacrossesd.org by June 29.

Contact our reps!

From the National Campaign for Transit Justice:

Despite all of your great work over the last few years getting members of Congress to support transit, and specifically federal support for transit operations, the Build America 250 Act advanced through the House T&I Committee. It had less funding for transit than IIJA did, no support for transit operations, and continues to treat transit as an afterthought to highways. But without pushback, it’s at risk of passing through the House, letting the Senate potentially lock in these horrible details just months before a much more pro-transit Congress comes to D.C. We must do everything we can to keep this bill from advancing.

Right now, that means keeping the bill from reaching the House floor. If the bill reaches the House floor, it becomes a lot more difficult to flex our collective muscle and show that transit is essential. There is already frustration within both the Democratic caucus about the quality of the bill that passed T&I, including committee members regretting their votes, and the Republican party. We need to add to this storm. 

Please use this template email and the information sheet above to reach out to your House representative(s) and ask them to tell House Democratic Leadership — Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Representative Katherine Clark, Representative Pete Aguilar, Representative Ted Lieu, and Representative Joe Neguse — that they don’t want this bill to come to the floor. Those of us based in D.C. will also be walking the halls of congress to spread the message and share the one-pager, but it will be much more effective the more emails that all of you send in. 

SMRT Ride Update

The schedule for the SMRT ride from La Crosse to Viroqua on June 10 has changed slightly.

The optional video, Transportation Liberation, hosted by Vernon County Over 50, will be shown at 2:15 p.m. at McIntosh Memorial Library rather than at noon. If you choose to attend the video presentation, the return trip to La Crosse will be on the last, bus for the day (leaves Kwik Trip South at 3:24 p.m.). See schedules for YELLOW and BLUE routes at https://ridesmrt.com

Lunch with Vernon County Over 60 at 12:15 at the Bethel Home Fellowship Hall, 614 S. Rock Ave., is still available IF you register by TODAY, June 5 at https://tinyurl.com/SMRT-TransLib-June10. The menu is Country Fried Steak, Potato, Gravy, Green Beans, and Blueberry Crisp, and the cost is $5 paid to VCO50 on site.

Please email or call with questions.

Detours

From MTU:

Notice to all Route #4 Passengers:

At the beginning of service on Friday June 05 to the end of service on Saturday June 06 we will be using the following detour due to the State Track Meet being held on the UWL Campus.

Route 4 Losey Blvd will use West Ave to Main St and Main St to 19th St to resume the route. Route #4 Downtown will use Main St to 13th St and 13th St to Badger St to resume the route.

If you have any questions, please ask your driver, or contact MTU at 608.789.7350

The state track meet detour is going to be used for construction projects on campus beginning on Monday. We are going to use this detour for most of the summer. Details coming soon.

Route #5 & #8 Riders:

Starting Monday 6/8/26, Gillette Street from Ranger Drive to Hwy 16 will be closed to vehicle traffic. 

Route 5 

All the stops north of St. Cloud Street on George Street will be closed. Any stops east of George Street on Gilette will be closed to the route 5 and route 8. The stops on Hwy 16 and along the Frontage Road will be closed during this detour also.

Route 8 

All the stops from Clinton and Caledonia to River Valley Drive, in both directions, will be closed.