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Downtown Richmond Parking and Transportation 

Downtown Richmond Parking 

On-Street Parking

The City of Richmond provides three mobile payment apps, Passport Parking, Parkmobile, and Pay-By-Phone. Each allows motorists to pay for parking through their smartphones. Users can download the app from the Apple Store or Google Play.  

Click here for an interactive map of street parking in Richmond. https://cor.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a49210548bc24ad08d7dc0bf1e2c77b3 

Have questions about parking? Visit the City’s website for more information. https://www.rva.gov/public-works/parking-enterprise 

Pay-to-Park Lots and Richmond VA Parking Garages

Riverfront Parking and Transportation in Downtown Richmond (link to webpage) 

Downtown Richmond VA Public Transportation

GRTC buses run from 5AM to 1AM daily, seven days a week, and operate in the City of Richmond for FREE! Downtown's public transportation to Richmond VA is as convenient and accessible. With 40 bus routes, the GRTC mobile app provides real-time bus arrival info and the GRTC website has a great map and schedule for you to plan your trip!  

https://www.ridegrtc.com/maps-and-schedules/system-map/ 

Learn more about GRTC's downtown bus service here! https://www.ridegrtc.com/ 

GRTC Pulse (Bus Rapid Transit)

The GRTC Pulse stops at 14 activity centers along its route with 8 stops throughout downtown. Buses arrive every 15 minutes (or better). The GRTC Pulse is the best option to navigate short trips throughout the city’s core and is made easy and FREE with zero fare and FREE Wi-Fi too! 

The Pulse runs every 10 minutes on weekdays until 7:00 PM and every 15 minutes during evenings and on weekends. It runs every 30 minutes late night (11:30 PM – 1:00 AM). 

For more information about riding the Pulse here! https://www.ridegrtc.com/grtc-services/pulse-brt/ 

Biking in Downtown Richmond 

Protected bike lanes are popping up all over Downtown Richmond making biking an easier, safer and a better option to navigate RVA than by car. On Franklin Street the bike lane spans 15 blocks and is a separated lane of travel for two-way bike traffic traveling east and west through Downtown Richmond between Belvidere and 9th Streets. 

There are over 10 bikeways throughout downtown, explore them with the RVA Bikeways Map. 

RVA Bike Share

You can freely rent a bike from any docking station. You can also make intermediate stops outside of stations by using the secondary lock on the bike. When finished, you must return the bike to an RVA Bike Share station. 

Have questions? Visit the RVA Bike Share website for more information or download the RVA Bike Share app. 

E-Scooters

Lime and Spin e-scooters are available all across the city! These dockless, electric scooters can be accessed and found when you download the Lime and Spin apps.

Amtrak Station in Downtown Richmond

Ride the train into the heart of downtown at Main Street Station (RVM), the newly renovated transportation hub located at 1500 E. Main Street. Main Street Station provides Amtrak service on the Northeast Regional Train with five daily departures. North to south service goes from Richmond to DC, New York, Hartford, Providence/Springfield and Boston and east to west to Norfolk/Newport News and Virginia Beach. Or, of course, you can head to DC and transfer to just about anywhere Amtrak serves. And Amtrak now offers bike service on trains traveling to Williamsburg. 

Find more information about schedules and Main Street Station here! https://www.amtrak.com/home.html 

Richmond International Airport 

Richmond International Airport attracts four million passengers traveling across the country each year! The airlines that fly in and out of Richmond (RIC) are Allegiant, American Airlines, BermudAir, Breeze Airways, Delta, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, Spirit, Sun Country Airlines and United, making booking your flight to RVA convenient and affordable. 

Learn more about RIC here. https://flyrichmond.com/airline-information/