JTA Chairwoman Donna Harper called the system a "light rail on tires."

[Charles Hunter]

"Flyer"  deja vu all over again.  Back in the late 1970s, JTA had express bus services going to Orange Park, the Beaches, Regency, Mandarin, Gateway, and out Normandy, with park-and ride lots, mostly in shopping centers, some (like Mandarin's I-295 @ San Jose) were dedicated lots.  Each had an intermediate stop as well as the end of the line.  What did they call this service?
"Express Flyer"

[thelakelander]

So what happened? Did it literally fly away?

[Charles Hunter]

When the gas crisis was over around 1980 or so, ridership went down - service was reduced, causing more riderhship loss (transit death spiral) until they were canceled.  I think they were pretty much gone by the time of the last big route shake-up in the mid-80s.  Some of the routes had so many riders that JTA used articulated (bendy) buses - 60/65 seats, and filled them up.