The city will use $1.2 million in downtown parking revenue to continue to cover the cost of free shuttle trips around downtown.
The now-familiar FRED shuttles that cart people around downtown San Diego free of charge will continue to do so for the time being.
Florida-based Circuit maintains the ride-hail app, runs day-to-day operations, and handles marketing and advertising efforts, whereas San Diego subsidizes the bulk of the service’s cost. The latest contract extension is meant to keep the service running as the city prepares to negotiate a longer-term deal with Circuit later this year, piggybacking off of a fleet procurement process run by the San Diego Association of Governments. In July, SANDAG selected Circuit as its neighborhood electric vehicle vendor. The company and the transportation agency are close to signing a deal that would serve as a baseline for contracts with San Diego and other municipalities.
In other words, the new contract could bring with it a somewhat altered downtown shuttle service, although exact details aren’t being disclosed yet.
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