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In August, before fall semesters at the universities began, ridership averaged only 5,866 daily, De La Mare-Schaefer said, before rising to about 14,600 when the schools were in full swing. UVX ridership does fall off dramatically during the summer, when fewer students are attending BYU and UVU.

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) A UTA Utah Valley Express (UVX) bus on May 30, 2018. Such notice was not sent when the service first opened in August 2018 because it was still under partial construction, used some temporary stations and lacked some bus-only lanes. She noted that this is also the first year that BYU sent notices to its students and their parents that they need not bring a car because of service from UVX - which is also helping to drive up ridership. “They didn’t want to add another parking lot or parking structure, so that’s one of the indicators we like to look at.” “More students are not parking on campus,” she said. Utah Valley University is reporting that it sold 1,200-plus fewer parking passes to students this year than before UVX started operating, De La Mare-Schaefer said, reducing congestion and potentially giving the school more room for facilities besides parking. She said the Orem station is the busiest on the FrontRunner line, and Provo is No. With all that, UTA bus ridership has increased nearly eightfold from the 1,863 boardings on average before UVX launched to its current daily average.ĭe La Mare-Schaefer said UTA also has seen an increase in FrontRunner train ridership as more students are deciding to commute via mass transit from as far away as Salt Lake County and even Davis and Weber counties, and transfer to UVX. The agreement costs each school $1 million a year for 10 years and is expected to provide up to 100,000 passes annually.

The agency also struck a deal with BYU and UVU to provide transit passes for unlimited transit on buses and trains to their students, faculty and staff - and, in some cases, their family members.

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UTA received a federal grant to allow free ridership on UVX for three years, and two years are left. 25, 2018.īut Mary De La Mare-Schaefer, regional manager for UTA, sees an even bigger reason for high ridership on UVX. (Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) One of UTA's Utah Valley Express (UVX) buses makes a stop in Orem, Tuesday Sept.

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