RTA Flyer extends hours, provides free transportation to Dayton’s firework festival

The Greater Dayton RTA is extending the hours of The Flyer service to allow firework attendees to use the free ciculator route as a transportation option to and from the holiday festival in downtown.

The Flyer will operate from 6 a.m. to midnight on July 3. Due to street closures, The Flyer will run on a special detour route beginning at 9 a.m.

After the fireworks end, several RTA Flyer buses will wait for passengers northbound on Patterson Avenue, between Second and Third streets, limiting wait times.

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Several RTA routes will also go on detours starting at 6 a.m. on July 3 due to road closures:

• The Flyer - It will start northbound and turn from Main Street, right onto First Street, right onto Patterson, right onto Second and back to regular southbound routing on Main Street.
• Route 16 - Riverside Drive will be closed, riders should board at Jefferson at Second streets or Helena at Riverside.
• Route 5 - Monument Street will be closed, riders should board at Ludlow between Second and Third streets.
• Route 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 43 - Jefferson Street will be closed north of Third Street, riders should board at Wright Stop Plaza.
• Route 14 - On July 4, this will be rerouted around Main Street and West and East Franklin Street for Centerville's Americana Festival, riders should board the bus at the nearest stop outside of festival activities.
• On July 4, all RTA buses will be on a Sunday service schedule. Regular bus times will resume July 5.

To look up the service schedules, visit www.iriderta.org.