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A trolley in San Diego offering free rides on the city's Free Ride Day.
Newsby News/Media ReleaseOctober 9, 2024

San Diego Experiences Ridership Surge on Free Ride Day

MTS and NCTD logged more than 340,000 passenger trips on this year’s free ride day.

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One of Edmonton's electric buses charging from an overhead charging station.
Newsby News/Media ReleaseOctober 8, 2024

Edmonton Transit Ridership Outpaces Population Growth

Ridership in Edmonton continues to grow, allowing the city to exceed pre-pandemic ridership levels.

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A train pulls into the station.
Newsby News/Media ReleaseOctober 1, 2024

LA Metro Sees 21st Consecutive Month of Year-Over-Year Growth

LA Metro is quickly approaching their pre-pandemic ridership levels, partially thanks to steadily increasing demand from leisure riders.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 12, 2024

Study Finds Robust Investment Benefits Chicago Transit, Non-Transit Users

The research, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ANL, found a robust investment in transit service would result in a 53% increase in transit boardings in the region, with a 9% travel time savings and 11% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Articlesby StaffSeptember 9, 2024

Swiftly CEO Talks Recent Acquisition, Power of Tech in Transit

METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman recently spoke to Swiftly CEO/Co-Founder Jonny Simkin about the Hopthru acquisition, the power of data, transit’s readiness to assess new technologies, and much more.

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Newsby StaffAugust 30, 2024

King County Metro Cuts Ribbon on New RapidRide Line

The new RapidRide G Line adds miles of red bus lanes, along with extensive upgrades and improvements to Madison St.

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Newsby StaffAugust 27, 2024

Swiftly Annouces Acquisition of Hopthru

The move adds Hopthru’s ridership data and analytics solutions to Swiftly’s platform, giving agencies powerful ways to access, clean, monitor, and analyze ridership data for NTD reporting, service planning, scheduling, and more.

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TTC Line 2 Train
Newsby StaffAugust 27, 2024

With Demand Up, Toronto Set to Boost Services

Across the system, service hours will increase to 97% of pre-pandemic levels, with ridership at approximately 80% to 85% compared to 2019.

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Newsby StaffAugust 26, 2024

SEPTA Launching Restored Rail Services

The service additions will restore 80% of pre-COVID service on weekdays (up from 77%) and 84% on weekends (up from 63%).

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Newsby StaffAugust 23, 2024

L.A. Metro Ridership Continues Positive Trend

The agency saw 19,873,436 boardings on weekdays, reaching 78.8% of its pre-pandemic July 2019 level. On weekends in July there were 5,592,948 boardings, reaching 95.3% of pre-pandemic weekend ridership from July 2019.

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