As I don't have my license or car to drive this very moment, I have used SPARTA pretty frequently as my secondary source of transportation.
Spartanburg is a fairly poor city to begin with, so the transportation system is going to kind of suck (it won't serve areas like Boiling Springs or Cedar Springs, for instance). I'm pretty grateful of not going on buses in larger cities like NYC or in New Jersey, though, as they tend to be dirty, smelly, expensive and trashy.
I greatly recommend the day passes. Definitely beneficial for college students or disabled people. A monthly pass will run you $18.75, so it is definitely not the worst bus system in the world.
Most of the drivers who run the buses are friendly. Sylvia, who drives Spartanburg Tech, is very friendly and whenever she's late, she always asks passengers what next bus they need to get on. WestGate's bus, however, can be really packed at times, to a point where I can barely find a seat. :P And it runs very late at times...
Until I actually have me a car (hopefully within the next two years), I'll be using SPARTA or Dial-a-Ride when everyone else is working. read more