The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a 5% increase to Placer Commuter Express (PCE) fares during its May 12, 2009 board meeting.

According to the Placer County Department of Public Works, the purpose of the fare modification is to stay in line with inflation, and, most importantly, to help offset decreases in transit subsidy fund sources. 48% of Placer Commuter Express is funded by fare revenue. The remaining 52% is funded by Placer County and our partner cities using Local Transportation Fund (LTF) and State Transit Assistance (STA). The LTF revenue, which is derived from the retail sales tax, is down by more than 16% over the last two years in Placer County. The State Transit Assistance has been reduced by 50% in the current year and will be eliminated statewide beginning next year. In order to keep key transit services operating without significant cuts, it will be necessary for us to increase revenue through passenger fares, as well as reduce operating costs wherever practical.

The last fare increase for PCE was in July of 2007. We would expect that this fare increase, coupled with reduced operating costs when new buses arrive in the next year will allow us to keep these new fares in place for at least two years.

Click on the yellow box at the top, right of this page to view the fare increase table to see current fares and new fares.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view/print the PDF links on this page. PCE is a service of Placer County Transit, (530) 885-BUSS or (916) 784-6177 Email Link: Placer County Transit, Website: www.placer.ca.gov/transit