 A Ryde Racine bus at the downtown transit center | |
| Founded | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 1900 Kentucky Street Racine, Wisconsin |
| Service area | City of Racine and suburbs |
| Service type | Bus service |
| Routes | 9 |
| Hubs | 1 |
| Chief executive | Trevor Jung |
| Website | ryderacine |
RYDE Racine is a public transportation agency, operated by the city, serving the city of Racine and villages of Mount Pleasant, Caledonia, and Yorkville in southeastern Wisconsin.
The city-owned transit system, which is also a member of the Southeast Wisconsin Transit System, maintains a fleet of buses operating on nine bus routes. The city also provides paratransit services, branded as Dial A Ride Transportation (DART). [1]
In November 2010, First Transit replaced Professional Transit Management of Racine as the company to manage the city's bus system. [2] It had managed Belle Urban System from 1996 until 2003 when the Racine City Council awarded the management contract to Professional Transit Management of Racine. Bus drivers and managers of the Racine system become city employees after this contract expired in 2022.
In 2017, the City of Racine changed the transit system's name from Belle Urban System to Ryde Racine, and added commuter bus service to Chicago and the North Shore suburbs through Coach USA. [3]
| Ridership | Change over previous year | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 [4] | 1,395,324 | n/a |
| 2014 [5] | 1,474,670 |  5.69% |
| 2015 [6] | 1,364,547 |  7.47% |
| 2016 [7] | 1,257,983 | 7.81% |
| 2017 [8] | 1,211,699 | 3.68% |
| 2018 [9] | 1,160,864 | 4.2% |
| 2019 [10] | 1,041,115 | 10.32% |
| 2020 [11] | 681,778 | 34.51% |
| 2021 [12] | 518,515 | 23.9% |
| 2022 [13] | 618,997 | 19.4% |
| 2023 [14] | 1,037,031 | 40.32% |
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