San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System is on pace to have a record year of bus rides.
MTS buses and trolleys saw more than one million more trips from July through October compared to the same time period last year.
Ridership is on pace to increase nearly 100 million trips over the course of the year, MTS CEO Paul Jablonski said in a news release.
MTS officials credit more transit options; specifically the new “Rapid” buses, which have limited stops; for the surge as well as the frequency of bus rides.
“Combined with its other services, riders are finding MTS more convenient than ever before,” Jablonski said in the news release.
The most notable increase came in October, when MTS buses logged 5,426,882 trips, which officials said was the highest ridership of any single month in the agency’s history.
That same month, MTS unveiled the new Rapid 237 and Rapid 215 buses – the Rapid 215, which connects San Diego State University to downtown San Diego – averages more than 6,000 daily trips.
