However, by the mid 1960s this situation began to change with most privately owned intra-city public bus services in the United States no longer financially sustainable.

Pocatello Regional Transit (PRT), as it is known today, originated with the South Eastern Idaho Community Action Agency's (SEICAA) creation of a targeted and limited door-to-door service for senior citizens in 1972.

Title IIIB, state senior citizen transportation funding along with Bannock County, City of Pocatello and SEICAA financial assistance represented the operational and capital foundation until 1978.

This policy change greatly assisted the local transit system in making it possible to serve the broader general public needs in Pocatello and the rural areas.

Even though It was always a financial challenge for PRT to survive and flourish without any dedicated state funding to assist the City and rural areas in the provision of public transit, the system continued to grow while carefully husbanding limited resources.

In an exciting development, thanks to FTA and the City of Pocatello, a project some six years in the making is about to come to fruition with the opening in July 2014 of new transit Administration and Maintenance facilities on South 5th.

Free transfer tickets are available for passengers needing to access destinations that otherwise requires more than one bus route and must be requested at the time the fare is paid upon boarding.