GEORGETOWN, Texas - The Georgetown City Council rolled out a new public transportation system this week. It’s called rideGTX, and it's a partnership with rideshare providers Uber and zTrip.

What is rideGTX?

The backstory:

"It gives them the ability to get where they want to go, and hopefully, folks come to downtown Georgetown," said Georgetown City Council member Kevin Pitts. "We’re building a parking garage now. It’s very expensive. If this is something we see a demand in usage in, it could reduce the demand for parking downtown."

Every month, the city will provide a QR code for 10 discounted rides to anywhere in the city of Georgetown. It will also include a ride to Baylor Scott and White and Ascension Seton in Round Rock.

Riders will pay for the first $4 of the ride, and the city covers the next $10. Any charge past $14 will cost the user.

"I think it would be very helpful for the citizens of Georgetown, first of all, because there’s no mass transit here," said Ebony Freeman, an Uber driver. "We have no buses and no ways to connect different parts of the city together."

Freeman thinks the program will benefit many of his riders.

"A lot of the riders, especially around here, are either too old to drive. You know, we do have Sun City, we have a lot of young college students with no driver’s license or just no license for whatever reason and just need to go pick up groceries," said Freeman. - Read More on FOX 7 Austin News

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