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
• Despite the decline in ridership at the time, many Parisians had fond memories of the overnight train to Nice.
  — Chris O'Brien, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• These students made up 22% of ridership in the program last school year.
  — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024
• Indeed, most of the September ridership came from the Red Line stop, Gill said.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2021
• 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 work was easier while ridership was down and fewer drivers were on the roads.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• Even now, ridership is only up to about half of 2019 levels.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
• The South Shore Line’s ridership has slowly increased since last month.
  — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• In the first nine months of the pandemic, ridership ranged from 2.5 million to 3.6 million rides per month on buses and MAX trains.
  — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 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
• Metro’s ridership, could join in on the service in January 2022.
  — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 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
• More than 32 million passengers boarded Amtrak trains nationwide this year in an all-time ridership record, the company announced Tuesday.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
• The ridership growth and deeper ties with Uber represent significant milestones for Waymo and its parent company, which has poured billions into the venture with seemingly little reward for investors.
  — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2025