ridership
noun
rid·er·ship
ˈrī-dər-ˌship 
: the number of persons who ride a system of public transportation
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By the numbers: DART's total ridership rose nearly 9% in FY2024, reaching around 3.5 million rides compared to the year prior.
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Linh Ta, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
For two years now, monthly BART ridership has remained at about 40%-43% of pre-pandemic levels.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2024
The researchers based their ranking on a range of factors including the average Google review score of stations, the distance covered by the system, the number of stations, the annual ridership, and the percentage of positive and negative online reactions to news about each metro.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
There’s another way to get more people back on mass transit that may be more effective: Increase the ranks of office workers back at their desks to pre-coronavirus levels downtown and elsewhere, and ridership on the CTA, Metra and Pace likely would recover.
—Will Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
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Linh Ta, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
For two years now, monthly BART ridership has remained at about 40%-43% of pre-pandemic levels.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2024
The researchers based their ranking on a range of factors including the average Google review score of stations, the distance covered by the system, the number of stations, the annual ridership, and the percentage of positive and negative online reactions to news about each metro.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
There’s another way to get more people back on mass transit that may be more effective: Increase the ranks of office workers back at their desks to pre-coronavirus levels downtown and elsewhere, and ridership on the CTA, Metra and Pace likely would recover.
—Will Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Ridership.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridership. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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