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New light rail vehicles will help address crowding on the TTC’s streetcar routes, and accommodate ridership growth.
Read More →Would help to oversee a 30-bus, 12-route, 75-employee municipal transit system. Duties would include monitoring the contract with the service provider and the city, participating in planning and design of routes, completing monthly operating reports and quarterly audits and monitoring ridership and segment analysis.
Read More →The transit authority achieved a 4.1 percent increase in rail ridership in 2008 compared to 2007. For 2008, the rail system recorded a total of 198.2 million rides – an increase of 7.9 million rides over the previous year.
Read More →During FY 2008 (Oct. 2007-Sept. 2008), Amtrak carried more than 28.7 million passengers, representing the sixth straight fiscal year of record ridership when comparing the same routes.
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Flexible in the extreme, BRT can be implemented in stages and allowed to develop its ridership over time -- either as an end unto itself or as a prelude to a rail system. That underlying reality is one of BRT's most appealing virtues: even in the most difficult of financial times, small and large metropolitan regions alike still need public transportation.
Read More →Across the U.S., bus rapid transit system plans are moving along at a healthy speed. While funding is a concern for many, two newly operating systems are already experiencing unanticipated ridership increases.
Read More →The MTS' 30-second spot, created by multimedia production company Groovy Like A Movie, coincided with "National Dump the Pump Day" and attempted to boost ridership at a time when gas prices soared over the $4.50 per gallon mark.
Read More →The increases in 2008 are continuing in 2009, with ridership up 7.6 percent over the same period a year ago for the week ending March 1.
Read More →In all, MNR provided 84,220,427 trips last year with 83,554,482 rides taken aboard its trains, representing a 3.9 percent increase compared to 2007, and includes ridership on the railroad's ferries and buses, which reached 665,945 in 2008, a one-year increase of 9 percent.
Read More →Growth had not been predicted, due to service cuts and a 25-cent fare increase implemented last year.
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