YoloBus: Improved service means increased ridership

From the Yolo Sun:

Yolo County’s bus chief, for almost 30 years the brilliant, visionary, driving force behind its public transportation system, desires it to have carried the equivalent of the current population of California (now ~37 million) before he retires. At the present time, YoloBus is fast approaching 30 million passengers (since 1982), far surpassing the population of Texas.

While those figures are immense, consider the fact that YoloBus has already provided almost 300 million passenger miles, 11,495 times around the world riding separately.

Terry Bassett, when he finally achieves this goal of matching the whole state population in total YoloBus rides and attempts to retire, will be impossible to replace. His presence is synonymous with this county transit system, spending his career for its building. YoloBus was recently selected as one of the very best systems in the entire United States.

Read the rest at YoloSun.wordpress.com.