How to Use ridership in a Sentence

ridership

noun

• The subway has, for a great part of the day, the ideal amount of ridership.
  — Curbed, 16 Sep. 2022
• But there’s more that could be done to improve Class 1 Routes and bike ridership across our city.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Travel times remained about the same, though, because of the increase in ridership, the study found.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• And some of the big cities that have waived fares still haven’t regained pre-pandemic ridership.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Hop ridership dropped 28% during the RNC compared to the same week the previous year.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
• Meanwhile, service, ridership, and speed across the entire Red Line are all down since the T added new slow zones last year.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• In some ways, though, the growing crowds are part of the piece, which Simpson always envisioned with the flow of ridership in mind.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• Car traffic is up and subway and bus riderships are down.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 Sep. 2023
• The dismal ridership may have something to do with the dismal service.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The riders lean younger, and there’s a larger percentage of female ridership than on the bus.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The South Shore Line’s ridership has slowly increased since last month.
  — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• But that trickle-down effect hasn’t been enough to sustain and grow the Classic ridership.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• Metro had three of its top pandemic-era ridership days last week.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• With trains that will be added to the schedule, Noland said, the railroad expects to more than triple its daily ridership from Michigan City.
  — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• That's a nearly 40% increase in ridership from last year.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024
• The drop in ridership has also made the presence of homeless people on the trains more visible.
  — Fox News, 31 Jan. 2022
• Since the city eliminated fares on the 28 bus this summer, ridership has soared.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• The first free-fare days, held last August, led to a 5% bump in bus ridership and 12% jump in FrontRunner passengers.
  — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• TriMet saw a nearly 70% drop in ridership at the beginning of the pandemic.
  — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2022
• Growing transit ridership in the San Diego region and elsewhere has not been easy.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
• Uber and Lyft were taking a pretty heavy toll on transit ridership.
  — Kari Edison Watkins, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
• Commuter rail, which the T made free in and around Boston, and the Bluebikes bike share system, for which free passes were offered, saw an uptick in ridership.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
• Crime in the transit system fell in 2023 compared with the previous year even as ridership increased.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The killing is the latest episode of violence to hit the transit system, which has faced rising crime and plummeting ridership since the start of the pandemic.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• But the pandemic has hammered what were growing ridership numbers on the nascent line.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• Kiser said the ridership data the agency relied on to plan the express line was based on pre-pandemic numbers.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2022
• The red line stopped running just as BART was seeing a post-pandemic surge of ridership as more offices reopen and gas prices soar.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2022
• The plan calls for 1,800 miles of new high-comfort bike lanes and hopes to reduce the number of deadly collisions as well as increase ridership throughout the city.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 20 Dec. 2021
• And one of the things the pandemic marked most neatly was the near-total shutdown of the subway, with ridership collapsing by ninety per cent.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022
• Nationally, school bus ridership is in decline, in part because of staff shortages, service changes and delays.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024