When gas prices plummet, typically a lot of people who use transit primarily due to higher gas prices will return to their own vehicles in droves. At least, that’s been the trend for a while now. However, this past January has not been the case for PSTA, where they saw another record ridership month even as gas prices temporarily reached the $2.00 mark in some areas of Florida.
Please read PSTA’s post for more on this exciting news!
Who: Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority
What: Carried more riders in January, 2015 than any previous January in agency history
When: January, 2015
Where: Throughout Pinellas County and to Tampa
How: By providing a record-setting 1,258,631 rides to area transit users
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority set its second consecutive all-time monthly ridership record last month, making for seven new records in the past eight months. January’s record, however, was a bit of a surprise for PSTA leaders, because it happened during a period when gasoline prices dramatically dropped. Typically transit ridership will also drop during periods of low fuel prices, but PSTA’s ridership not only bucked that trend, but it did so in astonishing fashion – by posting a 7.8% increase over January, 2014.
“It’s one of the biggest jumps in ridership that I’ve seen in my 14 years of service with this agency,” says PSTA Board Chair and…
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