{"id":130048,"date":"2026-01-24T04:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:43:08","slug":"this-bus-offers-affordable-travel-to-west-palm-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130048\/","title":{"rendered":"This bus offers affordable travel to West Palm Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 If you&#8217;re looking for an affordable way to travel between Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach, the Port St. Lucie Express only costs you $3 each way.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH BELOW: Port St. Lucie Express riders saving money, avoiding stress of traffic<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie Express riders saving money, avoiding stress of traffic<\/p>\n<p>Riders in Port St. Lucie can catch a bus south to West Palm Beach from the Southwest Gatlin Boulevard Park &amp; Ride. Riders in West Palm Beach catch the bus to head north to Port St. Lucie at the West Palm Beach Intermodal Transit Center.<\/p>\n<p>There are two pickups in the morning and two pickups in the evening at both locations, and it gets you there in just about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with one rider who said the $3 ride is saving her a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to worry about the traffic. You don&#8217;t have to worry about being stuck in traffic. Gas is about $40, and by the time you get to West Palm and back to Port St. Lucie,y ou&#8217;re already at half a tank. It does save on gas and car maintenance as well,&#8221; one rider said.<\/p>\n<p>You can pay for the Port St. Lucie Express with just a tap of your credit card or use the Palm Tran Paradise Pass. Cash is not accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re dropped off in downtown West Palm Beach, it&#8217;s about a 10-minute walk to everything in downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Palm Tran tells WPTV the Port St. Lucie Express had a total of 14,204 riders in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie Express- 95X<\/p>\n<p>Morning southbound trips depart Port St. Lucie at 6:20 a.m. and 6:45 a.m.A 5:15 p.m. northbound trip from the Intermodal was added last JanuaryThe 6:50 pm northbound trip from the Intermodal was eliminated last yearEvening southbound trips depart Port St. Lucie at 6:35 p.m. and 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palmtran.org\/psl-express\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> for the northbound and southbound departure times and bus stops, along with payment options.<\/p>\n<p>Read our previous story from 2024 below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/shining-a-light\/3-bus-rides-palm-tran-connecting-west-palm-beach-and-port-st-lucie-in-pilot-program\" class=\"ListItem \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"ListItem-category\">Shining A Light<\/p>\n<p>    $3 BUS RIDES: Palm Tran connecting West Palm and Port St. Lucie in pilot program<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 If you&#8217;re looking for an affordable way to travel between Port St. Lucie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,64117,173,172],"class_list":["post-130048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-express","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}