LYNX Fast Facts

LYNX is the public transportation service for Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties. The agency started in 1931 as the Orlando Transit Company and eventually became LYNX in 1992.

LYNX won national awards in 1996 and 1998 as the Outstanding Public Transportation System in the United States. The agency moved into its current location – LYNX Central Station – in 2004 and opened its new operations center in 2007.

LYNX service area stretches over 2,500 square miles, making it one of the largest in the nation. That does not include the morning and afternoon Express Service it runs for commuters from nearby Lake and Volusia counties.

LYNX has broken ridership records 25 times in the last 26 years.

In August of 2007, LYNX celebrated the 10th anniversary of LYMMO, the first fully-functional Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the United States.

General Information

Service area: Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties.
Population of service area: 1.83 million.
Size of service area: 2,500 square miles.
Operating budget: $113,807,706.
Operating expense per passenger mile: $0.47.

Ridership Facts

Weekday average passenger count: 84,061
Annual passenger count: 26,067,842 (2007)
Breakdown of ridership: 60 percent female; 40 percent male
Percentage of riders using bus to get to work: 73 percent
Percentage of riders with no other form of transportation: 40 percent
Percentage of riders who use the bus more than five times a week: 60 percent

Fleet Information

Number of buses: 290
Number of fixed-route links: 65
Number of bus stops in system: 5,267
Miles fleet travels on average day: 51,886 miles
Miles one bus travels in a year: 62,245 miles
Diesel fuel used in average year: 3.974 million gallons
Miles per gallon for each bus: 3.9