
The decision to hold off on charging fares was based on two reasons — District Department of Transportation feared charging even $1 per ride would scare away passengers and charging a fare would actually cost the District money.
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Ridership growth particularly picked up late in the year. Average weekday ridership during the fourth quarter increased 27.9% over the same period in 2015, with light rail weekday ridership growing 83.8%.
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The ridership includes customers entering and leaving 72nd Street, 86th Street, and 96th Street, and the new entrance at 3rd Ave and 63rd Street as well as customers transferring from the F Subway line to Q Subway line at 63rd Street.
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Metro Rail carried a total of 592,000 boarding passengers — 360,000 more riders than on a typical Saturday.
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The agency launched Prime, as the service is called, in July 2015 with the idea of helping passengers complete the “last-mile commute."
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The milestone comes on the heels of MCTS receiving national recognition for outstanding service to the ADA community.
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RTC has watched bus ridership gradually decline along the Strip ever since state regulators allowed Uber and Lyft to operate in September 2015.
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Following the 2016 openings of the University Link and Angle Lake light rail extensions, Link ridership jumped 69.3%, while Sounder commuter service increased by 5.7% and ST Express grew 2.7%.
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MBTA cancelled late-night train service in February after a brief experiment and is now considering contracting with Bridj to provide the service.
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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.
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