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Escambia County Applies For Grant For Century And Molino ECAT Buses
February 8, 2009
Escambia County is applying for a grant to fund the ECAT bus that runs between North Escambia and Pensacola six days per week.
The $231,696 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation will be matched by the county for the “Route 60″ bus that stops in Century and Molino each day and connects to the rest of the Escambia County Area Transit system in the Pensacola area.
The application is for a “Federal Transit Administration non-urbanized area funding” grant to be used in the 2009-2010 fiscal year. The grant is to offset operational expenses of public transportation in more rural areas.
Funding from the grant will also be used for the Pensacola Bay Transportation Company paratransit program for disabled persons in rural area of Escambia County.
The ECAT Route 60 bus from Century and Molino to Pensacola is the most expensive bus per person and the most expensive bus per hour in the entire public transportation system in the county, NorthEscambia.com reported on December 31.
The bus costs $16.27 per passenger to operate, according to ECAT numbers from the last fiscal year. That’s the most expensive cost per passenger by far over any other bus in the system, with every other route falling below $10 per person (except for a free tourist route that runs to Pensacola Beach). In fact, is almost twice the next most expensive route per person, a 12th Avenue area route that costs ECAT $8.68 per person. The Century and Molino to Pensacola bus is also the most expensive per hour to operate in the ECAT system, at $78.29 per hour.
A total of 7,819 riders took the Route 60 bus over a one year period. That compares to 145,883 riders on a Fairfield Drive area bus.
Read the December 31 NorthEscambia.com story about the route by clicking here.
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One Response to “Escambia County Applies For Grant For Century And Molino ECAT Buses”
Question on the number of riders (7,819)!! Where did they catch the bus and where did they get off the bus. Where do they live? Do we even have this many people living in Molino/Century. I don’t know about Century, but I think Molino has about 2500/3000 people living in its community, . I guess the county is determined to pour more of our tax money down a black hole. Maybe instead of a bus maybe try using a van for the travel from the northend to civilization (southend). This county is killing me with all the wasteful spending. I guess all we need now is this “One Gov’t thing” so the southend of the county can really do us end. Sorry for the rant!!