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CyRide
CyRide is a partnership between Iowa State University, the ISU Government of the Student Body, and Ames, Iowa. CyRide provides public transportation to the community throughout the city of Ames. The word CyRide is a portmanteau of two words: Cyclone (which is the mascot of the Iowa State Cyclones) and the word ride. In January 2012, CyRide was recognized "as the nation’s small urban transit system with the highest number of rides per capita" at 106 rides per capita.〔Cyride. "Signals". January, 2012. Retrieved December 2013. http://www.cyride.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6416〕
==History==
From the 1860s until the early 1890 college students were taxied to and from campus by a horse-drawn carriage that was operated by brothers, Nichols and Maxwell Livery. The town committee published a report on November 1, 1890 stating that there would be a benefit to create a railroad to replace the current system.〔(Ames & College Railway Dinkey )〕
On July 4, 1892, the rail line, named the ''dinkey'' (given by the size of the engine) departed from its barn on the east end of 5th street, for its first trip to the Iowa State University campus.〔 The dinkey ran on 30 lb/yd (15 kg/m) rail; that is small compared to the 136 lb/yd (67 kg/m) rail that is used today. The dinkey had three passenger cars that were often at maximum capacity because of the growing population of the city.
In 1929, the dinkey was replaced by a bus system that transported passengers to and from the Iowa State University.〔(Dinkey Timeline )〕 In 1976 all operating buses were combined and CyRide was started as a city department. In 1981 Bob Bourne was the director of CyRide. He brought CyRide from a 12 bus, 3 route system to a 65 bus, 11 route system in his 25 years of employment at CyRide.〔(Borne Transit )〕
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