This small Utah city makes transit 'effortless'

The small city of Logan, Utah offers residents and visitors a practically seamless transit experience, writes Tiana May in Bus News.

According to May, during a 10-day visit, "Services were frequent enough that I rarely found myself checking a timetable. Buses arrived when expected, routes were straightforward to understand and the network covered far more than just the city centre. The air-conditioned buses felt like the obvious way to travel, rather than a service of last resort."

The city's transit system has offered free fares since its launch in 1992, and its ridership has grown to over one million rides per year. It is funded by a dedicated local sales tax and federal grants. While some circumstances that have led to its success are unique to Logan, "If the buses had been infrequent or unreliable, I would probably have remembered Logan as a city with free buses. As it was, I remember it as a city with a genuinely useful bus network."