Home Routes Fares Detours DSM Airport Jobs Whats New About CyRide Campus Transit Intercity New for Fall 2002 CyRide is the city bus system for Ames, Iowa (pop. 50, 731). CyRide began as a city department in September, 1976, and through the cooperation of the City of Ames, Iowa State University, and the Government of the Student Body at Iowa State University, became the Ames Transit Agency in ...