MyRide will cease to be as of May 22. The city made the announcement less than 24 hours after a public comment period closed.
By Scott Morgan, Managing Editor
May 12, 2026
Rock Hill wasted zero days announcing that MyRide, the city’s seven-year-old free bus service, will end on May 22.
A 30-day public comment period in which no member of the speaking public supported shutting MyRide down ended on May 11. On May 12, the city stated that its decision to end MyRide was final.
The city cited the “dwindling number of operational buses and ongoing maintenance issues have limited the City’s ability to consistently and reliably operate fixed-route service.”
This has been the city’s public position for a year. Last April, four bus routes shrunk to two because of these maintenance and repair issues. The city’s garage staff has pulled off nothing short of miracles to keep the buses it had left running on cannibalized parts and Scotch tape.
So it’s not on the garage staff that these buses couldn’t be salvaged for much longer. Even if scavenged parts were available, they would die as quickly as the all-hype, no-meat buses that Proterra sold to Rock Hill before going out of business.
The collapse of mass transit, rather, is on city leaders who did not seek the counsel of nonprofits and service providers; who did not give ample time for people who’ve come to rely on the service a chance to weigh in and offer solutions; who did not phase in a replacement system that, despite its best efforts, is riddled with issues ferrying its existing clientele.
York County Access has been handed a big ask with little time. If it can’t handle the influx in business, it will not be on the agency. It will be on the city.
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