Bus ridership projected to set record
PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER
Bus driver Raditha Craft transports passengers as she steers her vehicle up U.S. Highway 17 from Bartow to the bus terminal in Winter Haven.
It’s a telling statistic in support of public transportation.
A total of 49 percent of those who ride the county’s buses do so to get to work and back, according to Paul Simmons, manager of the Polk County Transit System.