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The transit agency serving Las Vegas and the surrounding region is the first in the U.S. to enable customers to pay fares for public transit and bike rental from the same account in a third-party trip-planning app, though mobile ticketing in these apps are slow to take off.
Transit says it has sold tickets for only around 65,000 RTC bus rides since January 2020. That represents a tiny share of RTC total ridership of just over 39 million for 2020 alone.
RTC of Southern Nevada, the main transit agency serving Las Vegas and the surrounding region, now enables customers to buy passes for bike share in addition to tickets for buses through the trip-planning Transit app. Although the implementation is relatively small, project backers say Las Vegas is the first U.S. city to launch bike share and transit passes in the same app.