Breeze Transit

Bus at Breeze Transit

Breeze Transit carried 1,640,396 bus boardings in FY2025 at $14.05 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Sarasota, FL
FY2025 boardings
1.64M
-8.8% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$14.05
+12.8% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$13.25
+14.3% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
5.7%
-17.9% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
7.89M
average trip 4.81 miles
Operating cost
$23M
Vehicles in service
38
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
9.7
169.1K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every bus operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2025

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Directly operated 1,422,088 7,337,974 151,063 $21,613,745 $15.20 $14.28 6.1% 33
Purchased transportation 218,308 556,685 18,065 $1,427,143 $6.54 — — 5

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Breeze Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 1,640,396 7,894,659 2,337,962 169,128 $23,040,888 $1,309,419 $14.05 $13.25 5.7%
2024 1,799,546 8,378,414 2,174,519 159,282 $22,410,001 $1,550,593 $12.45 $11.59 6.9%
2023 1,736,651 8,150,205 2,021,970 144,861 $23,266,539 $1,343,593 $13.40 $12.62 5.8%
2022 1,688,330 8,025,219 2,044,964 147,067 $17,343,280 $1,006,876 $10.27 $9.68 5.8%
2021 1,901,968 9,231,162 2,303,823 161,390 $17,384,480 $222,973 $9.14 $9.02 1.3%
2020 2,003,652 9,905,724 2,648,101 185,098 $20,917,957 $752,068 $10.44 $10.06 3.6%
2019 2,418,259 12,138,109 3,020,839 204,715 $20,535,651 $1,471,597 $8.49 $7.88 7.2%
2018 2,397,901 11,373,298 2,980,911 206,602 $18,702,104 $1,598,328 $7.80 $7.13 8.5%
2017 2,545,889 12,636,332 3,084,771 220,738 $19,205,204 $1,610,264 $7.54 $6.91 8.4%
2016 2,552,189 12,680,806 3,057,679 214,176 $17,256,543 $1,505,634 $6.76 $6.17 8.7%
2015 2,712,470 13,480,975 3,030,100 206,771 $15,968,718 $1,722,881 $5.89 $5.25 10.8%