2BNB Bus Gets Museum/Tourism Connected

Excerpt from press release: Richmond, VA – The popular To the Bottom and Back (2BNB) free nighttime bus service today launched a pilot tourism route. The route, called To the Museums and Back is a free bus service running Feb. 19-May 15 to coincide with the VMFA exhibit, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, […]

February 9, 2011; 11:07 AM • by Oregon Hill

Excerpt from press release:

Richmond, VA – The popular To the Bottom and Back (2BNB) free nighttime bus service today launched a pilot tourism route. The route, called To the Museums and Back is a free bus service running Feb. 19-May 15 to coincide with the VMFA exhibit, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. The goal of the program is to provide an easy way for museum visitors and Richmonders alike to get to additional museums and historic sites around downtown Richmond.

Two buses, operated by 2BNB, will run a 50-minute loop stopping approximately every half hour every Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. When the museum service ends, visitors may take advantage of the existing 2BNB service that runs 6 p.m.-3 a.m.

“A tourism circulator has been needed for quite some time,” said Jack Berry, president and CEO of the Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. “This route wouldn’t be possible without 2BNB, who has the existing buses, drivers and guides to make it work. However, the idea to do it now came directly from Richmond magazine Editor Susan Winiecki.” Winiecki appealed to the community for a tourism circulator in the magazine’s January issue.

In addition to brochures outlining the route, riders can track real-time bus location online or most any smart phone through 2BNB GPS bus tracking. Temporary signs will mark the stops along the route.

Judging from the website/brochure, it looks like the B2B bus will go along W. Cary Street going east, then Main St. going west. It stops at Tredegar Civil War Center also.
It says it will stop for you if you hold up your hand.

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