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Miami Beach presents trolley ridership, micro‑mobility counts; city supplements service with local funds and pilot programs
Summary
City of Miami Beach Assistant Director O'Neil Rodriguez told the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust that the city's free trolley carried about 3.4 million riders annually, micro‑mobility counts will be included in PTP ridership totals and the city funds roughly half the trolley budget with PTP, local transportation funds and grants.
The City of Miami Beach presented a municipal update to the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust on March 19, describing its citywide trolley system, ridership, funding and pilot programs for on‑demand service and water taxis.
"We have, about 3.4, almost 3,500,000 riders, per year," said O'Neil Rodriguez, assistant director for the City of Miami Beach, describing annual trolley ridership and the city's decision to include micro‑mobility (bikes and scooters) in ridership accounting.
Micro‑mobility and ridership accounting Miami‑Dade staff Mariana Price told the trust that the county will begin counting micro‑mobility trips in its fixed‑route ridership totals; she said the first quarter's micro‑mobility total exceeded 500,000 trips and that Miami Beach alone accounted for more than 400,000 of those rides in the reported…
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