Downtown Looper benefits from baseball

OCTOBER 09, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- The downtown Looper trolley's ridership has gone up 16 percent this year, a gain that organizers say might be due to the Rays' success.

About 10,500 more people boarded the trolley so far this year compared with the same period last year.

Eric Carlson, transportation director for the Downtown Partnership, which operates the trolley, said there has been no change in marketing or service, so he really isn't sure why ridership has grown so much.

But baseball is as good a guess as any.

"I think it might have a little to do with that," he said. "I think some of it is a little bit of luck and some of it is just that we have a great downtown."

-Cristina Silva, Times staff writer

Posted by Marc Topkin at 12:09:18 pm on October 09, 2008 in

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