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The Utah Transit Authority will remove on Nov. 1 a fuel surcharge that it added in August. That will lower the normal bus or TRAX fare from $2.25 to $2.
"The average diesel price dropped in the third quarter to below $3 per gallon. So we have initiated the process to remove the fuel surcharge Nov. 1," said UTA General Manager Mike Allegra.
UTA has a policy to impose a surcharge when the average retail price of diesel rises above $3 a gallon during a quarter. In the second quarter this year, the Utah average was $3.08, but that dropped to $2.98 in the third quarter.
"The fuel surcharge is a way to protect UTA's budgets without implementing a permanent fare increase," Allegra said.
Removing the surcharge will drop the cost of an adult monthly bus/TRAX pass from $75 to $67. A student or minor monthly bus/TRAX pass will drop from $57.75 to $49.75. It will reduce an all-day ski bus pass from $8 to $7.
A Premium Express/FrontRunner monthly pass will drop from $177 to $162. A complete list of fares is available at http://www.rideuta.com.