{"id":267469,"date":"2025-09-30T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:25:09","slug":"its-free-ride-day-for-san-diego-trolley-buses-coaster-and-sprinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267469\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Free Ride Day for San Diego trolley, buses, Coaster and Sprinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re riding public transit on Wednesday, busting out a wallet, smartphone or fare card won\u2019t be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego-area transit agencies are offering free commutes on Oct. 1 for the return of Free Ride Day, which has for years been part of an effort to promote public transit and curb emissions from private vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>No-cost public transit will be offered all day Wednesday on all Metropolitan Transit System and North County Transit District modes, including buses, trolleys and both Coaster and Sprinter trains.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Free Ride Day will be the sixth since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, transit officials have reported boosted ridership during the promotion, and this year\u2019s event comes as a MTS ridership continues to climb.<\/p>\n<p>Ridership grew 7% year over year, with 81 million individual rides between June 2024 and June 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdmts.com\/rider-info\/rider-insider\/riding-comeback-train-or-trolley-ridership-passes-81-million\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the transit agency reported last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means ridership has almost been restored to where it was in 2019 before the pandemic, when there were about 85 million individual rides.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, trolley ridership grew from about 36 million to 38 million rides, and MTS buses saw ridership climb from about 40 million rides to nearly 43 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re riding public transit on Wednesday, busting out a wallet, smartphone or fare card won\u2019t be necessary.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,728,50,3549,7264,7289,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-267469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-top-stories-sdut","16":"tag-transportation","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}