New Flyer XN60 1104

Location: A Street between India Street and Columbia Street, San Diego, CA
Operator of Vehicle: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS)
Date of Photo: July 16, 2014

In honor of the second annual “Free Ride Day” in San Diego, which took place yesterday, it seemed appropriate to share a photo from my 2014 trip to San Diego for the Bus Photo of the Month.  MTS uses Free Ride Day as a way to encourage San Diegans to discover how they can use the transit system as part of their regular commutes, the hope being that if people like it enough when it is free that they will become paying passengers.  In the first iteration of Free Ride Day in 2018, over 53,000 trips were taken.  No word yet on what this year’s ridership figure was.

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