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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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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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Newsby StaffAugust 22, 2024

San Diego MTS Ridership Up 10% in FY24

During the last fiscal year (July 2023 – June 2024), the transit agency logged 75,663,343 passenger trips, a 10.4% increase over Fiscal Year 2023 (68,511,363).

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Newsby StaffAugust 20, 2024

Iowa's DART Ridership up 9%

Fixed Route continues to be DART’s most highly utilized bus service, with 95% of all rides in FY 2024 on one of DART’s more than 25 local and express bus routes.

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Newsby StaffAugust 7, 2024

San Antonio's VIA Link Ridership Hits 1 Million, Launches New Zone

The VIA board unanimously approved creation of the new Downtown Link zone at a special-called board meeting.

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Videosby Staff and News ReportsAugust 6, 2024

The Present and Future of Public Transit with Jannet Walker-Ford and David Scorey

Jannet Walker-Ford,Lead, Advisory and Planning business, at WSP and David Scorey, CEO of Keolis North America, join METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman to discuss the state of public transportation today, the hidden benefits of contracting, sustainability, workforce development, and much more.

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