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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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Newsby StaffAugust 2, 2024

California's 'Reimagine SamTrans' Moves into Next Phase

Data from May 2024 show fixed route ridership hit 98.2% of May 2019 levels, well above regional and national recovery trends.

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Newsby StaffJuly 31, 2024

California's SamTrans Awarded for Outstanding Services

The award honors transit agencies that demonstrate superior achievement in efficiency and effectiveness.

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Newsby StaffJuly 30, 2024

Santa Clara VTA Named Outstanding Public Transportation System

The top industry award from APTA honors a public transportation system member who has demonstrated achievement in efficiency and effectiveness among agencies providing more than 15 million but fewer than 50 million annual passenger trips.

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Riders boarding an L.A. Metro Train.
Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2024

LA Metro Ridership Up for 19th Consecutive Month

With 18,792,300 boardings on weekdays, ridership reached 82.1% of its pre-pandemic levels in June, with weekends seeing 6,389,175 boardings, reaching 97.7% of pre-pandemic weekend ridership from June 2019.

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Newsby StaffJuly 19, 2024

MTS Green Lights New Copper Line Trolley

The Copper Line will serve four stations between El Cajon Transit Center and Santee Trolley Station every 15 minutes every day for most of the day.

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Transit Dispatchesby Mark R. AeschJuly 16, 2024

Modernizing the Measurement of Value

The transit industry has both embraced and allowed the singular definition of value to be that of ridership. Ridership goes up somehow the industry did something great.

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