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High fuel prices cited as being a contributor. Increase touted at Rail Conference in Dallas.
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Ridership during the Cubs rally was 61% greater than that of the first Friday in November 2015, when Metra carried 285,078 passengers.
Read More →The combined bus and rail ridership for November reached nearly 88% of its 2019 pre-pandemic ridership level.
Read More →The last time MTS saw this level of ridership gains was in FY 2015, when the agency recorded back-to-back years of record ridership.
Read More →The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reported that Americans took 2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008, almost 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period.
Read More →Growth of bus travel has cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 36,000 tons and reduced fuel use by an estimated 3.48 million gallons (diesel fuel, gasoline and jet fuel) over the past year.
Read More →Metro’s monthly bus and rail ridership is now at 81% of its 2019 pre-pandemic level. Average weekend ridership is now at 91% of pre-pandemic level and 76% for average weekdays.
Read More →L.A. Metro’s monthly bus and rail ridership is now at nearly 80% of its 2019 pre-pandemic level.
Read More →In 2013, 10.7 billion trips were taken. It was the eighth year in a row that more than 10 billion trips were taken on public transportation systems nationwide, according to an APTA report.
Read More →The report, which analyzes the D.C. Metro system, proposes that greater reliability of transit schedules could motivate more people to leave their vehicles at home and ride the bus.
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