Park City getting more Electric!

Our town offers a year-round, free bus system in an effort to discourage the use of cars and to minimize CO2 emissions. We only use it occasionally, but should it much more if we were “greener” and better citizens!

Currently, there are more than 40 buses in circulation and in 2016, the first full-electric buses began to be added to replace the older diesel vehicles. Today, there are 37 diesel and six electric buses in the transit system's fleet. Recently, Park City Transit was awarded a $2.29 million (2 million euros) grant from the Federal Government for its No-emission program.

The six electric buses have been used between Park City transit center and Kimball Junction, about 12 miles away on busy route 224. For its seven first months of operation in 2017, 183,104 passengers used the Electric Xpress. In 2018, from the start of the year through July, 315,877 passengers rode the Electric Xpress. That contributed to Park City Transit's ridership of 1,645,896 from that same period.

Currently, the 7 buses financed by the grant are in production and should be operational by December, replacing older diesel shuttles throughout the system. With all that clean transportation available to us, we have a very little excuse to take our car and keep on polluting the world!