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Makes it easier and cheaper to transfer from buses to trains. The new money-saving midday pass is designed to encourage ridership during the parts of the day when DART has additional capacity.
Read More →Since Monday, attendees and other passengers boosted ridership on LYNX by 148% over a typical weekday. About 250 buses will be used to move nearly 6,000 delegates to DNC events. In Tampa, 400 buses were used to transport 2,200 RNC delegates, but several buses were late for state delegations.
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The annual return of this immensely popular feature also coincides with a continued rise in overall ridership on the New York State-supported Adirondack service, which operates between New York and Montreal.
Read More →Ridership has climbed for the past two years, but the growth has come in spite of rising rates and reductions in service. The agency is strapped for the cash it needs to add buses and expand routes.
Read More →On-demand system in Peoria County that has seen ridership grow over the last 15 months expects to be in the red by March or April 2013. MV Transportation, which operates the service, may renegotiate its contract.
Read More →Despite being similar services and having the same ridership segment, neither the city nor MU see the services as competitors.
Read More →In response to an increase in ridership on Texas trains last year, the Texas DOT proposed a plan to build a high-speed rail line through San Antonio and Dallas to Oklahoma City.
Read More →Looking into cutting in half or eliminating bus service in the most populous county it serves due to falling sales tax projections and previous service reductions causing a drop in ridership. However, if approved in November, a measure to increase the sales tax may help the struggling agency.
Read More →Will reduce the time between trains and buses and lower peak crowd loads by 10% to 15% in most cases. Through the first half of 2012, CTA's ridership growth was higher than nearly every other major U.S. transit system.
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Universities bring the ridership and cities get the system funding. Constant communication, offering unlimited access and focusing on service instead of governance structure are touted as factors in successful systems.
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