page_title: Wilkes Transportation Authority
section_title: WE Shuttle
hierarchical_section_title: Wilkes Transportation Authority / WE Shuttle
caption_attribution_description: English: A shuttle bus is parked outside of WalMart.
context_page_description: The Wilkes Transportation Authority, or WTA, provides North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro, North Carolina with regularly scheduled service through the two towns. Rural service is also provided anywhere in the county with prior scheduling along with service to certain locations outside of Wilkes County. WTA utilizes a fleet of vans and buses to serve their routes. WTA began operating in 1991 and remains the only public transportation option for the population.
context_section_description: The Wilkes Express Shuttle, known simply as WE Shuttle, is the only scheduled public transportation service in Wilkes County. There is only one bus line running in a single direction. It makes twenty-three stops at several commercial, residential, and medical locations within the boros, as well as a few other locations such as post offices. The entire loop takes just over an hour and is run ten times a day with several vehicles on weekdays between 6:30 in the morning and 6:30 in the evening.
caption: A WE Shuttle bus picking up passengers at stop #4, WalMart.
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