Valley Metro, the municipal bus service, will travel a busy route these next few months, stopping to bathe in municipal pride at one point and making possible watershed management changes at another.
Next month, officials plan to celebrate five decades of bus transit with a series of events that harken back to March 24, 1975, the day the city created Valley Metro through the purchase of a privately owned bus service, Roanoke City Lines.
It welcomed members of the community to an inaugural ceremony at the civic center at noon that day. Valley Metro has carried riders millions of times since, currently giving 120,000-plus rides monthly, at a cost of nearly $15 million a year…