New York's ridership drop is not an isolated trend — transit ridership across the country is in decline.
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When ridership declines, they often cut back service, which reduces ridership still further, leading to a death spiral.
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Since 2014, Phoenix increased service by 28 percent, yet its ridership dropped 8 percent; Atlanta increased service 21625 percent, yet ridership dropped 2900 percent; Austin increased service 220006 percent, yet ridership dropped 2202 percent.
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The decline in subway ridership is coming from off-peak hours and ridership within and between the boroughs outside Manhattan.
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Subway ridership is down 60 percent and commuter rail ridership has plummeted by up to 90 percent on Metro-North.
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For example, the company looks at transit ridership data as well as scooter ridership data to see where the two coincide.
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The immediate impact of the change was for weekday bus ridership to fall, partially offset by a surge in weekend ridership.
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And the most recent figures show weekday ridership rebounding as well, with overall ridership on the system's local routes up 4 percent.
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Ridership on public transportation is down in nearly every major American city, including New York City (which recorded its first ridership dip since 2009).
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And although weeknight ridership makes up only a small fraction of overall ridership, the number of people who depend on overnight trains has increased.
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A separated system with Uber competing on high-ridership routes and the public operating low-ridership ones would be devastating and against the public interest.
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Researchers found that for every year after ride-hailing companies enter an urban market, rail ridership falls by 1.3 percent, and bus ridership falls by 1.7 percent.
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Still, with ridership on the commuter rail at 10 percent of the normal level and subway ridership well below usual, many residents appeared to have simply stayed home.
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Fare evasion has accounted for about one-third of the drop in subway ridership since 2015 and about half of the bus ridership decline during that period, officials said.
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Weekday ridership was at its highest level since 1948, but weekend ridership fell about 3 percent, suggesting that New Yorkers and tourists were finding other ways to get around.
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The big picture: Transit systems across America have seen a steady decline in ridership over the past five years, with an average drop of 5% in bus ridership from 2016 to 2017.
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NORMAN SALANT, NEW YORK To the Editor: If the drop in subway ridership isn't seen as "reason for alarm" by Metropolitan Transportation Authority leadership, the steep decline in bus ridership should certainly be.
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"As impressive as voluntary measures reducing ridership by one-third in a single week is, that level of reduction in ridership is not enough to stop the spread of the coronavirus," Check wrote.
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On Saturday, Metro reported ridership of 275,000 at 11 a.m.
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Ridership has dipped to new lows in the last year.
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They also traveled longer distances and improved winter ridership numbers.
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And ridership is becoming less and less relevant each year.
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Whereas places with much lower ridership get full light rail.
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On city buses, ridership is down 49%, the MTA said.
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Above ground, the decline in ridership has been even steeper.
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On several of the new express lines, ridership has dropped.
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Normally, mass transit agencies celebrate ridership gains rather than declines.
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More recent data indicates ridership has fallen over 80 percent.
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They also prioritized transfer stations and those with high ridership.
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Still, transit systems on the East Coast are losing ridership.
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Data from 2017 showed that ridership in Seattle and Houston grew from 6900, providing hope to transit advocates that other regions could reverse ridership declines if they emulated the examples of those two cities.
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According to a recent study, New York is the only US city with a significant rail network where ridership has increased since 2800 — in several other US cities included in the survey, ridership fell.
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On rail, the largest ridership comes from those making more than $100,20163, who account for 29 percent of reported ridership; the next largest is those making between $25,000 and $50,000, who account for 21 percent.
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Another sign attendance for Trump's inauguration could be lower: Metro ridership.
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Trip data analysis and survey data revealed more about ridership trends.
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Bus ridership has dropped from 60% in 2000 to 41% today.
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Metro Ridership: As of 11am, 193k trips taken so far today.
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Metro Ridership: As of 11am, 21625k trips taken so far today.
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Metro reports that subway ridership is significantly higher than on Friday.
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However, according to the D.C. Metro, ridership as of 4 p.m.
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When I did my calculations, I only focused on train ridership.
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Ridership has risen about 12 percent over the last five years.
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Despite booming ridership, New Jersey Transit's finances have suffered during Gov.
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Several factors make the branch lines appealing targets, including light ridership.
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City officials have said the subsidies would decrease as ridership increased.
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Between 2009 and 2016, weekday ridership between midnight and 6 a.m.
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Subway ridership in New York City has plummeted in recent weeks.
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On Monday, ridership dropped 25 percent compared with the previous Monday.
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Amtrak in November reported a record year of ridership and finances.
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Transit ridership in Seattle is growing, and car use is down.
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The two largest income brackets riding the bus today are those making under $15,000, who account for 30 percent of reported ridership, and those making between $25,000 and $50,000, who account for 23 percent of reported ridership.
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The push to raise the fare gained steam after World War II. Ridership was soaring — on weekdays in 1946 average ridership was more than 6.4 million — and the city was emerging from years of wartime spending cuts.
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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said ridership as of 11 a.m.
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But ridership also jumped by nearly 7 percent in just one year.
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It rains a lot here and ridership will drop like a rock.
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Rail is an antiquated mode of transportation and ridership numbers show that.
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We need to keep expanding to handle ridership of a growing region.
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The shutdown comes at a time when PATH ridership levels are soaring.
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Ridership is at an all-time high, and automobile traffic has declined.
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Assistance to local public transit systems could be tied to ridership numbers.
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Uber, Lyft and unreliable M.T.A. service are combining to push down ridership.
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While the city and state contributions got smaller, subway ridership went up.
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And collapsed ridership means agencies won't have the revenue to restore service.
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A surge in ridership has coincided with with the local subway system.
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The city's Metro subway system reported ridership levels as of 11 a.m.
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Over this period of increased fares, Reuter's analysis showed, shared ridership fell.
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Bus ridership is now declining, so we absolutely need to address this.
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Ridership was lighter on Trump's Inauguration Day, according to Metro officials in Washington.
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They simply won't ... because they know they'll take a significant drop in ridership.
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Ridership should then rebound, since the DC metro area has only gotten bigger.
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Read more about Amtrak's plan to expand ridership at the Wall Street Journal.
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The WMATA told PEOPLE that ridership was at 237,000 as of 11 a.m.
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Its ridership was increasing, and its trains were new and running on time.
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Then they kept funding mostly flat for years, despite the surge in ridership.
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Last year, transit officials said Uber might be contributing to the ridership declines.
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But recently, those ridership numbers have been heading in the other direction: down.
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Ridership in some of the busiest subway stations has decreased by nearly 215%.
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Many companies are asking employees to work at home, and ridership is declining.
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It remains to be seen whether such actions will reverse declining transit ridership.
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Ridership averaged 5.7 million people a day in 2015, the highest since 1948.
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The day with highest ridership, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was Dec.
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"We're pleased to be on track to meet our ridership projections," she said.
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Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road have also seen their ridership grow.
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It now carries about five million people each day, its highest ridership ever.
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Working-class usage suffered from a cycle of fare increases and ridership decline.
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So that's one of the reasons you see a decline in bus ridership.
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According to the aforementioned study, Canada ridership grew significantly between 2012 and 2017.
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Yes, but: While these tech-driven programs to improve transit ridership can help in many cities, they most likely won't impact ridership in places like Washington, DC, and New York City, where the main causes of concern are aging rail infrastructure.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's subway and buses and two commuter railroads, said that subway ridership had fallen 60 percent and that bus ridership had fallen 49 percent on Monday, compared with the same day last year.
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Since May, Via's service in Arlington has gained triple the ridership of the bus.
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It relies on multiple intersecting routes, some with high ridership, some with fewer users.
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I think you have seen that transit ridership has been flat in many cities.
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The study also suggests that Uber bumps up bus ridership but decreases train use.
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Even those two outliers only claimed 0.4 and 2.3 percent increases in ridership, respectively.
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The city ranks 19503th among the 50 most populous cities in terms of ridership.
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Uber's desire for confidentiality in its dealings with public agencies extends beyond ridership data.
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"It has not been a huge success in terms of ridership numbers," said Cochran.
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A drastic decline in ridership will be costly for the district in many ways.
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In the past decade, even as the subways have deteriorated, ridership has steadily increased.
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The railroad reported another year of record ridership for fiscal year 2019 on Friday.
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Public transit ridership dropped in 25 of 35 U.S. major metropolitan areas in 2100.
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Mass transit agencies are being crushed by falling ridership and have started curtailing service.
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The Expo Line from downtown LA to Santa Monica has exceeded its ridership expectation.
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Weekday ridership on the Waterbury line averages 960; on Saturdays, the average is 834.
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Subway officials have blamed "overcrowding" and growing ridership as the main reason for delays.
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Public transit ridership is down across the country as the virus continues to spread.
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Public transit ridership across the country has dropped, as The New York Times reports.
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MTR saw a further 40% to 50% reduction in ridership since the virus outbreak.
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Rail ridership was down 523 percent through March compared to the last fiscal year.
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The system is fraying under record ridership, and trains are breaking down more frequently.
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Those images and statistics like ridership for Washington's Metro appeared to disprove his claim.
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For Lyft, however, the company said it came down to a lack of ridership.
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Khosrowshahi rejects the notion that Uber is responsible for the decline of transit ridership.
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Weekend bus ridership fell about 4 percent last year to under 2.2 million riders.
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On March 17, ridership was down 87 percent from the average Tuesday in February.
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But that's more than the ridership of most mass transit systems in the country.
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Indeed, average subway and bus ridership is typically lower in August than during the rest of the year, according to the M.T.A. On an average weekday in 2017, subway and bus ridership was 7.5 million; last August, it was below 7 million.
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Since adding more bus service in 2018, transit ridership is up and congestion is down.
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Total ridership on the day Obama was sworn in four years ago stood at 782,000.
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Regardless, this high ridership demonstrates the demand an AV fleet could meet, at comparable cost.
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Look like the Chinese dockless bike-share company Mobike inflated its ride and ridership numbers.
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But setting this route aside, bus ridership has gone off a cliff, here and nationwide.
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Ridership was 197,000 on the morning of George W. Bush's second swearing-in in 2005.
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While some transit systems have cut service, others that increased it still saw ridership losses.
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About 2200 million fares have been purchased since 73, or 27 percent of total ridership.
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The partnership will make it easier for Waymo to grow its current test ridership program.
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Meanwhile, the Grand Paris Express and Crossrail are projecting ridership in the millions per day.
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Ferry systems in the city, as well as BART, have also seen dips in ridership.
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Bus ridership declined to 725 million rides in 2017, down from 843 million in 43.
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The study comes as transit agencies like L.A. Metro are grappling with unexplained ridership drops.
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The system's ridership declined 150 percent last year, despite major investments in the rail network.
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And not coincidentally, it's one of the few US cities where transit ridership is growing.
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Health care workers have pushed up ridership in neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.
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A year after Ravitch's tax plan was enacted, annual subway ridership dropped below one billion.
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By 2015, ridership had hit 1.7 billion, a level not seen since the late 1940s.
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Construction work to make repairs to the subway was also affecting ridership, Mr. Mulligan said.
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He estimated WMATA would lose $52 million in lost ridership revenue in the coming months.
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We've defined it in terms of growth in all our city plans, not just ridership.
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As ridership swells, it could provide a blueprint for New York and other major cities.
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Amtrak also regularly breaks its own ridership records, with 31.7 million passenger trips in 2017.
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The project — which examined subway ridership, fares, incomes and other variables — was published this week.
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Ride-hailing led to a 12% drop in ridership on public transport in the city.
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Weekday bus ridership fell about 1.6 percent last year to just under 2 million riders.
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The L.I.R.R. also saw increased ridership Monday, Mr. Lhota said at the evening news conference.
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The idea is to boost ridership—and curb traffic—by making public transit more convenient.
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As the ceremonies began, DC's WMATA tweeted that ridership is down compared to 2013, Obama's second inaugural, and was even lower than 2005, when George W. Bush was being inaugurated for his second term: Metro Ridership: As of 11am, 193k trips taken so far today.
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Joseph Schwieterman, who studies public transportation, says the decline of bus ridership today has many causes.
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New York City is an exception: The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission publishes weekly ridership counts.
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But service is spotty, delays frequent, and ridership numbers for continue to drop, year over year.
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Last week, Uber had another record week in US ridership, continuing a trend Axios previously reported.
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In addition, Schaller found evidence that ridership was shifting from public transportation to ride-hailing apps.
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Total rail ridership was down 22019 percent in June compared to the same month in 2015.
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The American Public Transportation Association reports that since 1995, public transportation ridership has increased by 39%.
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For example, cities can promote transit ridership, carpooling and charging stations to cut emissions from vehicles.
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As a daily Metro passenger, I know that safety and reliability are critical in maintaining ridership.
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In fact, scooters typically emit more greenhouse gasses than buses with high ridership and electric bikes.
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Ridership shrank to barely half what it was at the end of the Second World War.
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Transit apologists offer many excuses for ridership declines, such as low gas prices and crumbling infrastructure.
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Meanwhile, subway service has dropped and bus ridership is down, pushing more locals toward drivers' seats.
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U.S. ridership is surging, he said — up 37% last year, to 2.6 billion passengers, from 2016.
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Delays and fares are rising along with ridership, with passenger cars packed to the breaking point.
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This indicates that ride-hailing is displacing transit ridership and increasing vehicle miles traveled by cars.
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Ridership surged, with Lyft taking a share of up to 35 percent in some American cities.
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That's the equivalent of nearly 114 years of Amtrak's nationwide ridership in just a few weeks.
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Bus ridership also continues to decline — it was down nearly 4.5 percent so far this year.
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On the subways, much of the decrease in ridership has happened at night, between 9 p.m.
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While ridership is down, Lyft is shifting gears by partnering with local organizations for delivery services.
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Brandolph said the transit system experienced at least a 50 percent decline in ridership as well.
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Daily bus ridership along the street has fallen to 28,000 from 143,000 in the past decade.
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Its daily subway and bus ridership of nearly 8 million dwarfs Los Angeles's 1.2 million riders.
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"But the good thing is, if ridership patterns change, you can shorten the trains," he said.
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Only about 220 people ride the bus on a weekday, the city's lowest daily bus ridership.
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In a rural area, you're not going to have enough ridership [to make it cost-effective].
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A recent University of Toronto study points out that the Uber effect depends on where you live—specifically that the ride-hailing app reduces transit ridership in smaller cities while increasing ridership in large cities (it can boost it by about 5 percent over two years).
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Annual subway ridership fell in 22006 to about 22017 billion trips, down about 2725 percent from 2843, according to statistics from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and subway officials said ridership continues to slip, falling during the first five months of this year by about 93 percent.
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Despite being in a state that relies heavily on public transportation for commuters traveling to New York City, New Jersey Transit's rail ridership decreased last year by 2.3 million trips, or 22016 percent, from 2240, while its bus ridership decreased by 22015 million trips, or 220 percent.
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Estimates and Metro ridership data suggest the turnout for Saturday's protest was higher than for Trump's inauguration.
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Which is why it's a shame that ridership in major cities throughout the US has been struggling.
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Ridership is down 36 percent this decade, and most cities in the US have seen similar declines.
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But after that tax money was redirected to rail, bus fares eventually went up and ridership declined.
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Metro said it saw higher ridership for the march than for President Trump's inauguration one day before.
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Ridership the morning of Obama's first inauguration ceremony in 2009 was 513,000 — more than double Friday morning's.
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" According to the Washington Post, the D.C. Metro's ridership was "lower than that of an average weekday.
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Since a series of safety failures, including a 2009 crash that killed nine people, ridership has declined.
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In fact, thanks to the program, the local transit agency reportedly cut a low-ridership bus route.
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The massive demonstration helped generate eight times the usual ridership for a Saturday, the transit authority said.
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Ridership is down because the subways and buses are increasingly unreliable, thrusting more commuters into private vehicles.
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Ridership on the L has tripled since 27, to more than four hundred thousand trips a day.
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In addition, average Saturday ridership through June rose 2.2 percent compared with the same period last year.
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Ridership, in turn, has dropped in recent months to low levels not seen here in a decade.
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The subway, of course, has seen drastic increases in ridership, but the roads are more crowded, too.
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Average weekday ridership in Manhattan fell by six percent in 215 and another five percent in 22009.
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And average daily ridership, which exceeded 703 million in September 2016, dropped to 5.7 million this September.
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With ridership so low, the company has decided to go to a Saturday schedule for Monday-Friday.
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Last week, on San Francisco's BART commuter rail, ridership slipped by 353 percent from the previous week.
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For instance, increased traffic has caused public buses to slow to a crawl, leading to declining ridership.
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Subway ridership has grown to nearly six million riders each day — its highest level since the 1940s.
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Public transportation ridership has declined nationwide as travelers have shifted to the ease and comfort of ridesharing.
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Another major city with an even older — although smaller — subway system is also confronting soaring ridership: London.
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In communities where ridership has been falling, the cost of waiving fares may be less than expected.
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This reflects a national trend, as transit ridership is falling in every major urban area except Seattle.
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Politico reports that metro ridership today, as of 11AM, was slightly below average for a regular weekday.
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In other cities, the company has convinced regulators to allow it to hide its ridership data — Uber's agreement with Boston requires the city to keep Uber's ridership data under wraps, even stipulating that the company will pay the city's litigation costs in a fight to keep that data confidential.
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With public transportation ridership declining across the board and labor costs remaining high, cities such as Las Vegas, Jacksonville and Austin, are exploring how autonomous vehicles can fill in key gaps, whether by taking over routes with lower ridership or providing first- and last-mile trips to transit centers.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Agency — a state office which runs trains and buses and controls some bridges and tunnels — said in a plea to federal officials that subway ridership has sank 60% from usual ridership levels, while passenger counts on its two commuter railroads are down 90% and 60%.
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Uber's competitor Lyft achieved record bikeshare ridership in New York after integrating bikes into its app this spring.
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It's also insufferably crowded and ill-equipped to handle the rising ridership that comes with the city's growth.
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Washington, D.C.'s transit system also reported lower ridership on the system in comparison to Obama's first inauguration.
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Declining bus and subway ridership has been pegged to the rise of Uber's popularity in dozens of cities.
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"It seemed destined to be a low ridership, niche project with some faulty underlying assumptions," Mr. Kabak said.
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The company says it expects ridership to "increase significantly" as a result of Citi Bike's full integration today.
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Ridership has steadily risen to nearly six million daily riders today from about four million in the 1990s.
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Caveat: The NSC estimated the numbers based on a survey of 137 amusement parks that provided ridership data.
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Even motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson has unveiled lightweight electric two-wheeler concepts as fears of declining ridership grow.
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Its ridership in New York City has grown 500 percent since May 2015, the company told Re/code.
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The MTA touts Bus Rapid Transit a more cost-effective method of addressing the rapid increase in ridership.
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Studies show that ride-hailing apps have contributed to a drop in transit ridership in some American cities.
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Ridership is falling because other methods of travel are faster, more convenient and often less expensive than transit.
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Mr. Makinen said he anticipated a total ridership of 200 passengers a day after the first six months.
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The comeback worked, but Harley has new problems: declining ridership in the US and an aging customer base.
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Ridership has steadily risen to nearly six million daily riders today from about four million in the 1990s.
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Ridership increased 40 percent over the same period and is approaching six million riders each weekday, he said.
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The authority had no ridership goal, and initially had 16,000 late-night riders a night on the weekends.
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It'd be fairly traditional private finance, and the aggregate costs are relatively modest, given the projected ridership levels.
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By 1945, ridership on the city's cable cars had declined, and there were only five lines in operation.
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Transit systems in San Francisco, Washington DC and Philadelphia have also reported dramatic declines in ridership and revenue.
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Like airlines, it's the amount it said was needed in the face of plunging revenues and decimated ridership.
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Researchers from Cornell University found that a 10% increase in bike availability saw a 12% increase in ridership.
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Declining ridership, coupled with tens of billions of dollars in debt, is probably not going to be sustainable.
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Nationwide, almost 30 other cities have opened subways since Nanjing did, giving China the world's largest subway ridership.
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So the body scanners could be a way to help increase riders' feeling of security, thereby increasing ridership.
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San Francisco's BART system has tweeted its ridership numbers daily in order to raise awareness for its plight.
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Some clubs even encourage women to learn to ride, and others have a policy of promoting female ridership.
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The subway's ridership exploded, and in response to crowding, more lines were built in the 1910s and '20s.
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Interstate highways and commercial air travel, buoyed by lavish government subsidies, were taking a toll on train ridership.
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As more cities go smart, expect transit planners to analyze ridership data through machine learning programs, he predicted.
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Weekday ridership fell because the change disrupted long-established patterns, leaving many riders uncertain about their best option.
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That comes at a time when tumbling crude oil prices have placed two headwinds against Houston transit ridership.
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Data on ridership and job censuses impact the success of your infrastructure, as well as its precarious budget.
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In New York, declining subway ridership is said to be linked to a rise in rideshares and bad service.
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New York Penn Station was by far Amtrak's busiest station last year, with ridership of more than 10.4 million.
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While Cleveland's public transit system is considered to be pretty solid, it has seen dwindling ridership in recent years.
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Seattle is one city that wasn't subject to the 22016 percent bus ridership decline over the past two decades.
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Coscia said that under Boardman, Amtrak "delivered record ridership, introduced a series of safety initiatives and modernized its fleet."
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In 2016, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and Washington D.C., all highly dense highly populated areas, saw decreases in ridership.
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Allowing more housing near public transportation will make housing more affordable, reduce gridlock, sprawl & carbon emissions, & bolster transit ridership.
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The New York City subway system is more than 100 years old, and ridership is at a historic high.
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I requested figures from the MTA of the ridership from Canarsie and East New York on the L train.
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After that attack, ridership dropped sharply, and the city's subway operator later demanded compensation from the assailant, Cheng Chieh.
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In October, Eva started a pilot project with the Montreal airport and saw its ridership increase by 40 percent.
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Chariot wouldn't provide many details about why the service was shutting down except to allude to failing ridership numbers.
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Since its inception, Amtrak ridership has roughly doubled and continues to grow making it a politically hard to kill.
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While ride-hailing is pulling riders away from public transit in some places, it can also enhance transit ridership.
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Cuomo said ridership is down on mass transit across the board over the past few days, lowering the density.
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In the late 1970s, New Jersey Transit carried about 70,000 passengers each weekday; today, its weekday ridership exceeds 310,000.
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Ridership is not much different today than a decade ago, but the system was in better shape then. Why?
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During that period, annual ridership on the three branches increased about 14 percent, to 2.6 million from 2.3 million.
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Mr. Corbett said New Jersey Transit had experienced a "dramatic 88 percent reduction in systemwide ridership" since March 50.
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The commission, which tracks taxi ridership numbers, has only collected data through January, well before coronavirus reached New York.
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The Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue station saw its weekday ridership grow to 15,700 last year, from 11,500 in 2012.
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The inland route through Downtown Brooklyn had more connections to subways and buses and would see much higher ridership.
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In the New York Tri-state area, for instance, ridership was up as people avoid more crowded public transportation.
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Subway ridership has been declining since 2015, and so far this year, it is down by about 2 percent.
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The latest deficits were caused in part by declining ridership, which has led to lower revenue projections, officials said.
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We don't have 70 years of detailed ridership telling us how many trains to run after a Yankee game.
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Annual ridership ranks just below that of New York, according to the Mass Transit Railway Corporation in Hong Kong.
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On the subway, annual ridership fell about 0.3 percent last year to 1.756 billion trips, according to the authority.
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If true, the rapid growth of these services explains nearly three-fourths of the 2016 decline in transit ridership.
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Public transportation is experiencing a similar shock, with ridership and revenue drops in line with what airlines are experiencing.
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After years of growing ridership, use of the system took a dip in 2016, with further declines this year.
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It stated that in several major cities, Uber ridership peaked at times when drunken driving accidents tend to happen.
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But the surge in weekend ridership was suggestive of the kind of gains the reimagining was supposed to offer.
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Right now Metro is in the midst of a pronounced ridership decline that seems driven primarily by a declining level of service frequency, which in turn is driven by the urgent need to do a bunch of repairs, which in turn was driven by a series of bad breakdowns that themselves reduced ridership.
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VICE: What level of ridership can we expect to see transfer from the downed L train onto Queens subway lines?
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The other is Arlington, Texas, which decommissioned its sole bus last year citing low ridership (only 200 riders per day).
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The MTA's buses are slower and less reliable than they were 15 years ago, and ridership is down 16 percent.
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The contract withholds over two-thirds of payments until construction is complete, and requires TBC to meet specific ridership goals.
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But hey, Toronto's solid public transit ridership figures seem to imply that our neighbor up north is on to something!
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Despite the entrance of several new mobility players in San Francisco, Keating said Scoot hasn't seen any dips in ridership.
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The company also claims to have confirmed its highest ever Harley-Davidson U.S. ridership: over 3 million riders in 2018.
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The results were predictable: Higher fares, lower ridership, and competition on heavily used routes but little service for other areas.
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However, Uber found that when it tried to make the service profitable and got rid of the subsidies, ridership plunged.
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The operator has been struggling with declining ridership and increased competition from the two big for-hire driver start-ups.
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"In the long run, an affordable housing program may be as important to ridership as an operational change," Zane says.
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My experience was smooth, but in June Cochran of the PSTA told me that the program's ridership had been modest.
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Public transit authorities need a sustained revenue from ridership in order to maintain infrastructure and keep servicing low-income people.
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The construction in the city is part of a push by transit agencies to expand their networks as ridership booms.
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Commuter railroads' ridership in the US has grown by more than 28 percent it the last ten years, ASCE said.
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Still, Harford has the difficult task of figuring out how to spend its marketing dollars intelligently without losing its ridership.
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Still, in cities like Washington and Atlanta, new lines have faced a backlash over delays, cost overruns and low ridership.
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Long-distance routes, which have drawn the ire of lawmakers for their cash burn, saw ridership climb just under 1%.
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It has declined by 2000 percent since 210, and 503 was the lowest year of overall transit ridership since 250.
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A few numbers that highlight the situation: 1.50 million The daily ridership, which has doubled in the past two decades.
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Airlines may also be required to operate routes they would otherwise like to cancel because of low ridership or profitability.
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Ridership at the neighborhood's two subway stations, Court Square and Queensboro Plaza, has increased at seven times the citywide rate.
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Now ReadUber's CFO says its ridership has tanked by as much as 50% in cities hit hard by the coronavirus.
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Tim Mulligan, the New York City Transit executive vice president, explained that peak-hour subway ridership is not the problem.
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Among our findings: The maintenance budget has barely changed in more than two decades, while daily ridership has nearly doubled.
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As subway and bus ridership decline, the agency could end up losing $822 million in revenue from 2016 through 2019.
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Vancouver boosted transit ridership via SkyTrain, the world's longest automated rail network, which hauls more than 495,000 passengers per day.
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Annual ridership dipped for the first time last year, even as the city's population grew, suggesting commuters are finding alternatives.
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With the subway in disarray, it was a bright spot for commuters, who pushed ferry ridership numbers above expectations. June.
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Subway ridership was up to about 1.7 billion as a functioning system paired with a return to citywide population growth.
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Without that safe feeling, ridership will decline, which is not good for anyone — the public, the M.T.A., the environment, traffic.
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The city of Herzliya, Israel, saw its bus ridership double after redesigning its bus map and increasing frequency, Haggiag adds.
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During Mr. Boardman's tenure at Amtrak, ridership grew by more than a million passengers annually in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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He believes a rise in gas prices, or "auto disincentives," would drive up ridership more than creating more mass transit.
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Ridership surged to an all-time high in 2016, with 384.8 million boardings compared to 2015's 362.9 million boardings.
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He said the company is not necessarily making a profit right now, but rather that it is focused on building ridership.
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This partnership is just one method cities are employing to deal with the 17 percent decrease in bus ridership since 1990.
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Recent studies have suggested ride-hailing is negatively impacting public transport ridership in the US, which could explain the tool's launch.
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But first, the state must get an initial segment "up and running as quickly as possible" to prove ridership, said Richard.
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Increased ridership and deferred maintenance will require massive upgrades across the system that will affect more than just the L train.
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The subway is one of the oldest (113 years old) and largest (daily ridership of 6 million people) in the world.
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Why this matters: Taxi ridership is also plunging in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles too as ridesharing use grows.
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Public transit use has been steadily growing over the past few decades, with ridership increasing by nearly 39 percent since 85033.
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As for ridership, the rail authority reckoned some 65m to 103m passengers per year would be travelling the route by 2020.
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Another proposal, entitled LINK, would build upon the city's NYC Ferry system, which has seen record ridership since launching in 2017.
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"It also negatively impacts Amtrak and state-supported services through decreased ridership, lost revenues and higher operating costs," the company concluded.
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The response shocked even Martz: in the weeks following the launch, Uber ridership within Altamonte exploded, rising tenfold, Martz told me.
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Friday's ridership fell short of the 275,85033 riders that used the Metro last Saturday ahead of the Women's March on Washington.
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But the system is chronically overcrowded, and annual ridership, already at 19063 billion, has been increasing nearly 4 percent a year.
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A surge in ridership — nearing 1.8 billion rides a year — is pushing the city's century-old subway system to its limit.
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But that was before the ascendancy of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn fueled a boom in ridership on the G train.
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Ridership declined in all of the nation's 38 largest urban areas (and the 39th, Providence, gained only 0.1 percent new riders).
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Ridership has more than doubled since 1990, with Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, a central choke point, seeing a 373 percent increase.
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It's an entirely different problem, almost a harder problem — and you can correct me if I'm wrong — to sustain that ridership.
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Other public transit systems, like BART in the San Francisco Bay Area, are reporting a ridership decline as of last week.
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The MTA's sharp drop in ridership can be attributed to New York City's attempt to stem the spread of COVID-85033.
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Bus ridership in New York City has declined, dropping about 14 percent since 2007, even as the city's population has grown.
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Lyft claims that Las Vegas is among its fastest growing markets, although the company does not divulge ridership numbers by market.
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In fact, the Bloomberg plan was intended to address surging ridership and anticipated the budget pressures that led to maintenance cuts.
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Since the carrier started in New York in 222, ridership has tripled, and routes have expanded to 232 cities from six.
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San Francisco has said it wants more proof that electric buses can withstand heavy ridership and the city's famously steep hills.
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More demand means more fares for drivers to collect, Uber reasoned, with the increase in ridership offsetting the smaller base fares.
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Ridership on New York City public transit systems has fallen dramatically as the coronavirus forced businesses, schools, and restaurants to shutter.
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Bus ridership has dropped about 14 percent between 2006 and 2017, to about 725 million annual riders from about 843 million.
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Last week, M.T.A. officials said they would only consider cutting service if health officials advised it or ridership continued to drop.
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Last week, M.T.A. officials said they would only consider cutting service if health officials advised it or ridership continued to drop.
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Amtrak ridership is down as much as 92% amid the spread of the coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal's Ted Mann reported.
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In the nation's capital, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) said ridership was off 85033 percent as the virus spreads.
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And ridership is down close to 20 percent, about 150,000 trips per weekday on average, since it peaked a decade ago.
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"Large municipalities sometimes see ride sharing as their enemy because it's taking away from their ridership," said Lynn Dollin, Innisfil's mayor.
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The campaign launches amid flat national rail ridership, with Amtrak reporting just above 30 million passengers for the last six years.
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Since then, Lyft says its operating costs have decreased and ridership has increased about 20% in markets like Denver and Miami.
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Annual subway ridership fell slightly in 22.2 for the first time since 2009, according to statistics from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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"Large municipalities sometimes see ride sharing as their enemy because it's taking away from their ridership," said Lynn Dollin, Innisfil's mayor.
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The system's ridership has been in decline amid competition from ride-hailing services as well as delays caused by deteriorating infrastructure.
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Uber will give its rentable bikes and scooters more prominence in its app next month in an attempt to increase ridership.
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Nixon has continued to make investment in the subway a top campaign issue, touting her own ridership to bolster her case.
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It's a way for cities to encourage greener transportation or even promote public transportation in places where ridership is low, Shah says.
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Meanwhile, the state transportation agency, CalTrans, is aiming to double transit ridership between 2015 and 2020, in part to encourage urban density.
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The Federal Transit Administration released June 2018 data revealing that the transit industry has now experienced four straight years of ridership losses.
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The magazine said the city had added miles of bike lanes, installed 493 new bicycle racks and experienced a surge in ridership.
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Ridership on subways, buses and railroads is up to 2.73 billion trips a year, almost double the number from 15 years ago.
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Weekday ridership declined 21.8 percent in the last half of 22005, Metro officials say, compared with the same period the previous year.
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And the BART trains are squeezed tight: Since 2012, average morning rush-hour ridership from the East Bay has risen 30 percent.
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All those Uber and Lyft cars around major cities are cutting into bus and light rail ridership, according to a new study.
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Citing rising nighttime ridership and falling crime, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is gradually removing the waiting area signs as it renovates stations.
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With a daily ridership of more than 5.5 million, New York's subway is the most heavily used rail system in the country.
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Mr. Orcutt said riders increasingly have more options, including Ubers and bikes, while telecommuting and online shopping have also cut into ridership.
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Despite the flagging ridership, buses provide a critical source of transportation outside Manhattan, reaching into neighborhoods that are far from subway stops.
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When ridership actually dipped slightly between March 2015 and March 2017, delays blamed on overcrowding increased from 0003,000 to 30,000, records show.
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Girma and I caught a Lyft ride away from the Strip further downtown, where, he claimed, ridership has grown steadily since launch.
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A similar decline in ridership has taken place in public transit systems in other cities where confirmed cases of coronavirus are ballooning.
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We all know about the seventies: the system went to pieces, ridership and revenue plunged, and the Warriors came out to play.
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The fiscal year 2019 saw Amtrak report record ridership, and the agency said it was on pace to break even by 2021.
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The study found that fare increases seem to have a temporary negative impact on ridership, but not for long, Mr. Moss said.
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Ridership was just as robust the next morning, with passengers carrying portable grills, strollers or folding chairs for outings in the sunshine.
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The average rate of cyclists killed or severely injured in crashes with motor vehicles has significantly declined as bike ridership has surged.
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Denver hasn't yet studied how the collaboration has affected ridership or customer satisfaction, according to a spokeswoman for the Regional Transportation District.
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Holmes said in a statement Thursday that the move could have detrimental consequences for ridership, the regional economy, local businesses and residents.
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First, Chicago has had as large a growth in L ridership as New York has on the subway, without the recent breakdowns.
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Ridership in general on Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road has increased to the highest levels in decades, resulting in overcrowding.
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What's happening: Public transit ridership is down across the U.S. due in part to new mobility services like ride-hailing and scooters.
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"We don't ask for proof of ridership; we assume people are coming in," said Jim Smith, a spokesman for New Jersey Transit.
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Studio revenue has increased year over year, paid rides are up, total rides are up, and our active ridership has not decreased.
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Studio revenue has increased year over year, paid rides are up, total rides are up and our active ridership has not decreased.
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The company says ridership across Canada has dropped by 41 percent since 2010; out west, it dropped 8 percent in the past year.
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But part of the success of a transit system—the way it adds additional service and makes necessary improvements—is determined by ridership.
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But a look at Uber's ridership numbers in the country and it's clear the demographics favor a female driver to female rider matchup.
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Fighting court battle vs Waymo Reportedly dealing with Department of Justice over "Greyball" Fallout over sexual harassment issues But ridership is still strong
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An Amtrak spokesman said by email on Wednesday that the system expected to show another increase in ridership and revenue in fiscal 2017.
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If it's successful, it' not hard to imagine Uber rolling out this program to other cities (like Philadelphia) where UberBLACK ridership is suffering.
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The beleaguered transit agency is facing a $275 million budget shortfall, partly due to declining ridership, increased repair work and higher labor costs.
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A review in 2011 put ridership at a more realistic 30m passengers a year, with an end-to-end ticket price of $89.
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The Times piece pegs this problem to overcrowding, but the underlying issue is lack of funding to accommodate for the growth in ridership.
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WMATA ensured the senators that passenger safety remains its top concern, but it may have to make adjustments if ridership continues to fall.
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Nationwide transit ridership in March 2018 was 5.9 percent below March 2017, according to the latest data published by the Federal Transit Administration.
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Washington's mass transit ridership went into a downward spiral for the next 85033 years until the advent of Metro's first rail-operating segment.
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Washington's Metro says it's seeing higher ridership for Saturday's Women's March on Washington than it saw a day before for President Trump's inauguration.
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Lime's ridership in San Francisco is currently on hold as the city reviews permit applications from 12 companies to operate electric scooter services.
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In 1904, its first year of operation, 3 million people rode the subways; that's the ridership, he said, in just one week now.
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The international aviation industry could face losses north of $100 billion if the virus isn't contained soon, with revenues and ridership already plummeting.
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"With record ridership and revenues, but critical infrastructure in dire need of billions in investment, Amtrak is at a crossroads," Mr. Schumer said.
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Still, with Uber ridership tanking — as much as 50% in cities like Seattle that have been hard by the virus — drivers are struggling.
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Taiwan's capital, Taipei, lost about 50 percent of its daily subway ridership during the SARS epidemic in 2003 that significantly affected the city.
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In San Francisco, authorities say that ridership has already "dropped significantly" as more people work from home or rely on other transit methods.
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Even over the last two years, with a slight decrease in the number of passengers, the city remains close to peak subway ridership.
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Ridership has increased significantly in recent years, with average daily trips increasing from four million in the 1990s to about six million today.
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Metro ridership did not surpass 2009 levels, and television ratings indicate not as many people tuned in as they did in 2009 either.
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The MTA, North America's largest public transportation network, provides service 24/7 and averages a ridership of 2500 million on a weekly basis.
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As mentioned on this site, the L's ridership skyrocketed in the aughts, as Manhattanites clamored for cheaper digs and gentrified spaces in Brooklyn.
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Experts said it is the sales tax revenue, and not the ridership revenue, that represents the hardest hit the transit agencies will take.
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Much of the decline in ridership occurred in Manhattan, where the subways, though troubled in their own right, are at least readily available.
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But cutting frequency makes a transit network much less useful, ensuring that ridership doesn't bounce back even when restrictions on activity fade away.
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Lime said then that the layoffs were due to a struggle to achieve profitability amid low ridership and regulatory challenges in the markets.
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In the past quarter century, ridership has almost doubled—it's nosing up toward two billion a year now—while capacity has hardly increased.
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As the talks continue, Chicago's transportation industry is gearing up to fight for their seemingly soon-to-be thinner stake in Chicagoan ridership.
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For 2019, the federally subsidized company reported record ridership and financial performance and said it would soon break even on a budgetary basis.
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Even before the intensive repairs at Penn Station began, PATH had the seventh-highest ridership of any heavy-rail system in the country.
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The second phase would extend the line to 125th Street — an expansion officials say is critical during a period of booming subway ridership.
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But given the demands on Penn Station, where ridership has boomed beyond the capacity to easily accommodate it, constant attention will be needed.
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Uber and Lyft have been tied to rising car congestion in cities, just as they've been tied to declining ridership of public transportation.
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In 2017, PATH's yearly ridership numbers approached 83 million, compared with 73.7 million in 2014, an 11 percent increase in just three years.
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More speculatively, a focus on redeploying existing resources to boost ridership should lay the groundwork for even more transit improvements in the future.
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Amtrak ridership as cratered as the spread of the coronavirus forces Americans to stay home and rethink travel in ways that could upset the railroad's plan to turn a profit for the first time this yearOverall ridership fell 92% last week, while a 99% dropoff in Acela bookings forced the railroad to outright cancel the higher speed Northeast Corridor service this week.
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For instance, while the ridership of Delhi Transport Corporation buses went up from 210 to 2397 million, that of Delhi Metro increased by 22.5,2257,210.
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Historic Detroit states ridership peaked following World War 1 with 20183 trains leaving the station daily but started to dwindle quickly in the 1950s.
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Based on data it's collected and analyzed over the past few years, Urban Engines can play with variables like weather, closed lines, and ridership.
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On the Thursday after Sandy, the East River bridges—the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, and Queensboro bridges—saw a 130 percent increase in bike ridership.
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Between 250 and 21, bike ridership on the bridge increased by 000 percent; this past June, an average Wednesday saw upwards of 22006,0003 riders.
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Unfortunately, the L is unique in that there is such heavy ridership in an area that has so little redundancy from other subway lines.
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If there are language improvements to make it clear that cities should be able to set ridership rules, then we are open to that.
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"It will absolutely happen," Scott Smith, Valley Metro's CEO, told Bloomberg, when asked about the negative impact of self-driving cars on transit ridership.
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Rail ridership was significantly down in April compared to last year, which was partly due to an earlier cherry blossom season than in 2628.
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News reports over the last thirty years have detailed the fact that its costs have continued to exceed estimates, while its ridership has underperformed.
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Amtrak has reported the system's ridership increased to 31.3 million passengers in the 2016 fiscal year from 30.9 million in the 2015 fiscal year.
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Ridership is already growing, and is limited by capacity and by poor service, both of which become easy to solve if Caltrain is electrified.
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"You're not gonna know the fallout for another few months, to see if it's going to have an impact on their ridership," he continued.
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As these companies hit record-high levels of ridership, debates over how much that's contributing to the city's godawful congestion continue to break out.
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On Monday, D.C.'s Metro system began letting commuters bring bicycles on subway trains during rush hour, hoping the invitation might boost ridership (WJLA).
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China is also setting new baseline requirements on ridership levels and the size and financial resources for cities applying to build new urban railways.
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Preliminary data suggest it will be 36 trips in 2018, the lowest recorded since the transit industry started keeping track of ridership in 1890.
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The magazine said it identified the nation's top 50 most bicycle-friendly cities by consulting with experts and combing through government data on ridership.
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Bus ridership is in steep decline, caught in a negative-feedback loop with increasing car and truck traffic, slower buses, and less reliable service.
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He also wonders whether marketing a motorcycle that is easier to ride will be enough to attract the ridership Harley-Davidson is hoping for.
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"The cost of late-night service, relative to the demonstrated ridership, is unaffordable for the M.B.T.A.," Joe Pesaturo, a spokesman, said in an email.
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Delays were down, ridership was up, and it didn't seem like the entire system was on the verge of collapse at any given moment.
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Ridership has roughly doubled since 1990 and is expected to continue to grow if the trains are able to run in good working order.
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New York is cutting subway, bus and commuter rail service amid the coronavirus pandemic, as ridership has plummeted and some workers have tested positive.
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In New York, while wheelchair users make up between 25 and 30 percent of Access-A-Ride's ridership, they take the majority of trips.
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Ridership numbers for Trump's inauguration were actually 570,000, though that is still less than Obama '13's 782,000 and Obama '09's 1.1 million.
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A precipitous drop in ridership has made social distancing inside trains easier, but Young would rather not have to spend so much time aboard.
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By late 2019, through nearly seven straight years of decline, national bus ridership in America was at its lowest level since the mid-1970s.
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According to a document prepared by City Hall, public transit ridership could be limited or staggered to help prevent the spread of the disease.
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Our bus system does not operate 22020/7 due to low ridership and limited resources (based on a tax structure with no population increases).
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The federal data show ridership of public transportation systems increased in just six of the nation's 28503 largest metropolitan areas between 22019 and 2016.
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He admitted he erred when citing Metro ridership figures for Trump's inauguration that suggested more people came to last Friday's event than Obama's inaugurations.
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Late-night ridership has rocketed over the past 15 years or so, as the subway and the city have become safer, Mr. Moss said.
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Transit agencies have only made minor changes to their suggested alternative routes like eliminating buses with low ridership and adding trains at busier stations.
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The answer, she explains, is a conjunction of booming ridership and an aging infrastructure — and fixing that is going to require a major investment.
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Walker says the way to get more ridership is to provide service so people understand how it works and what they are investing in.
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We don't have exact estimates yet, but aerial shots are clear on this point, as is secondary data, like Metro ridership and television ratings.
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Yet according to figures issued by Washington's transit authority, Metro ridership during Friday's inauguration was the lowest since at least 2005, The Washington Post reported.
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It has been plagued by growing delays attributed to such factors as inadequate maintenance, a crumbling infrastructure and outdated signaling, even as ridership has grown.
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The problem is Spicer doesn't compare that number with its logical equivalent: Metro ridership by 11 am on President Trump's Inauguration Day, which was 193,000.
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"We gained market share and set ridership records across the entire U.S." When reached for comment, LaManna declined to confirm Bloomberg's report or comment further.
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The $5 flat fee is a sign that Uber is incredibly bullish about its carpool service and is looking to grow its already growing ridership.
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Amtrak is planning to boost its ridership by revamping its national network of passenger trains, which could bring changes to its storied long-distance routes.
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Service frequency is the same as it was in the late 2000s, but daily ridership has grown from 36,000 in 21 to 2202,2225 in 29446.
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For public transit partnerships that allot tax dollars to private companies, a wide degree of openness about ridership data is standard, says Anbinder of TransitCenter.
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"Where and when are trips ending?" asks Mariah Montgomery, a campaign strategist at the Partnership for Working Families, which has pressed Uber for ridership data.
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Since transit ridership dropped by 255 million trips in 2017, ride-hailing may be responsible for more than 2023 percent of the decline in transit.
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Filling those positions will be especially important as public transit ridership begins to turn positive in some US cities for the first time in years.
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Absent stratospheric demand for ridership, it appears that the Houston-Dallas high-speed rail project would race towards bankruptcy faster than a speeding bullet train.
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But gas prices were 10 percent higher in March 2018 than March 2017 and ridership is declining even in areas with brand-new transit infrastructure.
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Until Juno ridership increases, Ms. Boylan says she will often need to travel long distances to pick up passengers, typically an undesirable prospect for drivers.
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Many people who live in Los Angeles do not have a car, he said, and the new rail line there has surpassed expectations for ridership.
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Another report found that transit ridership fell in 31 of 35 major metropolitan areas last year, including in Washington, DC, Chicago, and New York City.
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Transit agencies across the country should focus on what transit is good at: basic infrastructure and high ridership service that will benefit lot of people.
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New statistics from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority offer one alarming reason: Despite all the spending on public transportation, its ridership is falling.
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Asked whether subway ridership would continue to decline, Mr. Mulligan said that would depend in part on what happens to the for-hire vehicle industry.
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San Francisco's public transit system is shifting to buses-only as ridership plummets amid a regionwide shelter-in-place order to contain the coronavirus disease.
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The private concessionaire will not face any revenue performance risk: It will receive the same payments from the state, regardless of what ridership shows up.
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Public transit is becoming a more popular choice in cities such as Seattle, Houston, Detroit and Las Vegas, where ridership is also on the rise.
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Daily ridership has since soared to 95,000, from 75,000, said U Zaw Lwin, a divisional traffic manager for Myanmar Railways, which operates the Circle Line.
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He added that ridership had steadily increased since the start of the service, which is supposed to provide four runs in each direction each weekday.
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Yet it's hard to know how different tactics address different problems, because few governments and transit agencies take gender into account when collecting ridership data.
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The company's numbers do not include details on its overall ridership growth and leave opaque costs and other expenses not factored into its quarterly report.
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Though delays are rising, ridership is booming on New Jersey Transit, leading to overstuffed trains, especially when problems force riders to cram onto fewer trains.
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Today, transit ridership is facing a nationwide decline due to a variety of factors, namely rising fares and service cuts on bus and subway systems.
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But hobbled by a growing number of workers falling sick and the free fall in ridership, the agency has cut subway service by 25 percent.
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But hobbled by a growing number of workers falling sick and the free fall in ridership, the agency has cut subway service by 25 percent.
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Using ridership data, Ramot says they were able to optimize routes and find out where most of the traffic was coming from and at what time.
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What has befallen the New York City subway in the past few years—climbing ridership and plummeting on-time performance—is like a bad stomach bug.
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It's not clear where the 0003,000 figure comes from -- in fact, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority said the total ridership on Friday was higher: 570,557.
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The jump in bike-share ridership on San Francisco's new stretch of private car-free road, according to Lyft-owned Bay Wheels, the bike-share service.
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Its authors concluded that, while factors like changes in service levels, gas price and auto-ownership are important, they're "insufficient to explain the recent ridership declines."
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Would it be so bad if our transit agencies got a little saucy and made some splashy video ads, as long as it bumped up ridership?
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Lyft reported a huge loss for its first quarterly earnings report as a public company Tuesday, but said it made strides in growing its active ridership.
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Kendrick blamed competition from subsidized transport—such as hospital-chartered bus services—as a key motivator for the route cancellations by contributing to declining Greyhound ridership.
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The Lyft argument is actually one theory behind a recent report that ridership on Los Angeles's Metro system had declined last year after years of growth.
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And TfL will be able to collect a ton of very nuanced data about ridership this way, which will almost certainly lead to more efficient service.
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By providing shopping discounts, like Waymo has announced it will, the offer could potentially boost ridership, where those billions in entertainment dollars could then be made.
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Uber says it had not seen a major uptick in people deleting the app in the last 60 days, though it did not provide ridership numbers.
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For safety projects that involved partial rail segment shutdowns, ridership declined 50 percent to 80 percent at stations that were directly impacted by the repair work.
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That battle lasted into the 2000s, just in time for the 2008 recession to crush LA bus ridership again, and it's been falling steadily ever since.
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Virtually every major U.S. city saw a decrease, and out of the top ten largest cities, only New York City and Houston saw positive ridership numbers.
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Lyft's ridership has grown dramatically in the past two years, from 6.6 million at the end of 2016 to 18.6 million at the end of 2018.
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The feasibility study will seek to identify ridership demand, quantify potential economic benefits, identify regulatory requirements and work on mapping actual routes and physical infrastructure requirements.
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APTA's data reflects much of what Huckaby tweeted: Between 2100 and 22015, mass transit ridership increased 523 percent nationwide, while driving peaked in the mid-252s.
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But even if riders bore 100 percent of the cost, this would only cover the cost of daily ridership, not long-term maintenance and capital improvements.
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D.C. Metro ridership on Friday, the day of the annual March for Life, exceeded that of Inauguration Day exactly one week prior, the transit agency tweeted.
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Public transportation ridership is declining nationally, making it harder to pay for a $90 billion maintenance backlog that a 2015 US Department of Transportation study found.
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Uber's partnership earlier this year with bike-share company Jump did not directly produce much ridership growth for Jump, which it later acquired, sources tell Axios.
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Specifically, since the phrasing of the rule doesn't explicitly say that a set number seats must be filled, any eight seater vehicle with shared ridership, e.g.
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In San Clemente and Dublin, California, officials canceled fixed-route buses with the lowest ridership and provided discounts for people to travel in Lyft and Uber.
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In Seattle, average weekday bike ridership on three routes into the downtown fell about 235 percent to 203,220 trips this month from 214,22020 trips in February.
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Compared to the same time last year, ridership on the system's buses is down nearly 50 percent and 60 percent on the subway, the Times noted.
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He said revenue had fallen in line with ridership and that the agency expected "this precipitous drop to continue" as fewer riders to buy monthly passes.
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Ridership has plummeted by as much as 90 percent on the region's trains and 60 percent on the subway — rendering the normally jampacked underground practically unrecognizable.
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About 72,000 L riders — the single largest group — are expected to switch to the J, M and Z, increasing ridership on those lines from 165,000 now.
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As ridership grew from 2121 to 2142, the end-to-end running time during peak hours on the numbered lines increased by more than six minutes.
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Uber and Lyft haven't said if the spreading virus is having any effect on their ridership, but their stock prices were caught in the larger selloff.
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Based on our ridership data and observations, we do not expect these changes to impact the ability of our riders and operators to maintain social distance.
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In today's 360 video, ride along the East River from Astoria to Wall Street on the city's new ferry service, whose ridership has exceeded early projections.
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A BART spokeswoman said that the agency has seen a 90 percent ridership decline and estimated $960 million in lost revenue in the next six months.
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Around half the M.T.A.'s operating budget comes from farebox and toll revenue, and a significant drop in ridership could have lasting economic consequences, experts say.
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So agencies are cutting service, actively discouraging ridership, and running what service remains in a deliberately inefficient way that violates the basic logic of mass transit.
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After just one month of the program, Olympia saw a 20% increase in ridership compared to the previous year — an equivalent of over 221,2720 more riders.
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Asked whether the overtaxed subways could handle an influx of Long Island commuters, Ms. Hakim said she was confident the system could handle the extra ridership.
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In conjunction with bus rapid transit, the change cut bus travel times by 38 percent, enhanced on-time performance, and boosted weekday ridership by 17 percent.
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But the demands of a 23st-century ridership are being borne by archaic signal equipment, some of which dates to when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.
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It's not surprising that ridership on buses in the city dropped 21 percent between 2002-2017, a period when the city's population grew by 7 percent.
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But that car-centric view later shifted as the city struggled with worsening gridlock that has crippled its public bus system, whose ridership is in decline.
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The system has been plagued by growing delays attributed to such factors as inadequate maintenance, a crumbling infrastructure and outdated signaling, even as ridership has grown.
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In DC, for example, total ridership -- for both e-bikes and regular bikes -- on Lyft's system dropped by 13.9% last year from its peak in 2017.
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Based on that formula, the cost would be far higher now that the average wage is about $30 an hour and subway ridership has nearly doubled.
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"But without huge upgrades it's hard to think about an increase in ridership because you can't squeeze any more trains on the existing infrastructure," Puentes said.
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As a problem of engineering, design, and aesthetics, commissioning art for a rail network with the second biggest ridership in the United States was a gamble.
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This plan is designed to inspire ridership and evolve and sustain Harley-Davidson for another 115 years and beyond – something all of us care deeply about.
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That figure dropped significantly in recent years in part because of falling Metro ridership and WiFi on trains allowing passengers to read news on their smartphones.
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WA is also averaged across all lines, without weighting by ridership, so delays on the busiest lines count as much as on the least busy ones.
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Ridership and on-time performance soared on Manhattan's 14th Street bus line after efficiency measures were introduced starting in 2018, while travel times dropped 38 percent.
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Ridership in Asia increased by 743 billion to 274 billion between 21950 and 22018; Europe now accounts for 10 billion riders, and Latin America 6 billion.
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But to send out a White House press secretary with bad Metro ridership numbers and spin that directly contradicts clear photographic evidence about crowd size is insane.
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In the Bronx, the MTA hosted public forums to ask riders what they need out of their bus system, as ridership has been steadily falling for years.
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As Brooklyn neighborhoods like Greenpoint and Williamsburg have seen an influx of residents, L train ridership has grown to more than 300,000 people on average each weekday.
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As it copes with cascading delays, traffic congestion, and declines in ridership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is seeking salvation from an unlikely source: the tech sector.
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BART's ridership on weekdays averages more than 430,000 and it connects downtown San Francisco with the East Bay region cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont and other communities.
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An estimated 225,000 people ride the L train every day, which is more people than the daily ridership of the Baltimore, LA, and Miami transit systems combined.
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Martz says that he, a few members of his senior staff, and city commissioners are allowed to review the Altamonte ridership data, but not the general public.
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Many New Yorkers who do not live near the subway use the bus, even though bus ridership is declining — a trend transit advocates attribute to poor service.
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Last year, in an effort to boost sales, the company said it would open a factory in Thailand and continue to try to grow its international ridership.
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She noted that with commercial activity no longer concentrated on the waterfront and most people living elsewhere, ferries handle only a fraction of the ridership of subways.
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Mr. Anderson has increased ridership and revenue while doing some airline-style cost-cutting, such as reducing food service on trains and implementing penalties for ticket changes.
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Meanwhile, San Francisco's bus and metro system, known as Muni, reported "steady" numbers earlier in March, though declines in ridership are anticipated as infection rates ramp up.
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This week, transit officials said the popularity of Uber and other ride-hail apps had been a factor in the continuing decline in subway and bus ridership.
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Next, based on M.T.A. data on hourly ridership numbers at subway stops across the city, Ms. Levers estimated how many riders were likely impacted by each delay.
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The city's buses have been plagued by sluggish service and declining ridership, even though the persistent problems have received less attention than the crisis facing the subways.
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Supporters of a cap noted that subway ridership had dropped, and that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had cited the rise of for-hire vehicles as a reason.
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By one crucial metric, Amtrak is stronger than ever: In its most recent fiscal year, it posted a record-high ridership of about 31.7 million passenger trips.
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NEW YORK An article on Friday about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's declining ridership misspelled the surname of the chief regional economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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So far transit officials have not considered reducing service, but may decide to do so if ridership drops dramatically or health officials advise it, Ms. Feinberg said.
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Ridership at the Clason Point stop was more diverse than other lines, according to a report released by the city's Economic Development Corporation, which runs the network.
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The company would also collect a wealth of data on ridership patterns with its platform, which the town plans to use to further study its transit needs.
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The company declined to share revenue or ridership figures, but Schaer said its "priority has been on figuring out the economics first" and then worrying about growth.
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The first phase of the new line, which cost about $235 billion, is opening at a critical moment, with subway ridership reaching its highest level since 1948.
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The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a commuter advocacy group, has criticized the plan, arguing that the agency should invest in improving existing stations to accommodate growing ridership.
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The introduction of the MetroCard in 1997 was a transformative moment for subway ridership, said Mr. Moss, because an unlimited card could be shared among family members.
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Many of the Rockaway stations are among the least busy in the system in terms of ridership, and only the last stop, at Far Rockaway-Mott Ave.
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The government said on its website last month that it estimates initial average daily ridership for this year of about 80,000 passengers, increasing to 95,000 in 2021.
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The Denver Eagle project was built on budget and opened early, and has seen larger than expected passenger ridership on its shiny and fast airport express trains.
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Citi Bike, the bicycle-sharing program, set a ridership record in 2016 with nearly 14 million trips — an increase of about four million trips compared with 2015.
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On the one hand, nearly every agency is losing tons of money due to plummeting ridership, while costs keep rising to keep the system clean and disinfected.
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Then came the news that subway ridership had dropped for the first time since 333, even though the city's population and the number of jobs keep increasing.
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That&aposs likely welcome news for public transit agencies around the world, many of which have blamed ride-hailing services like Uber for a decline in ridership.
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Estimates and D.C. Metro ridership data put attendance at more than 500,000 people, suggesting Saturday's protest saw a significantly larger turnout than Trump's inauguration the day before.
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"The free ridership (if it were left to be that) would be not incidental, but calculated, not imposed by circumstances, but mandated by government decree," Scalia wrote.
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"We need to accept that this was a dismal failure and that once people actually have to start paying to ride it, we'll see ridership plunge," she said.
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But it turned out that Spicer had compared the number of people who used the system during Trump's Inauguration Day with ridership numbers only up to 11 a.m.
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Emily Hartridge, a popular YouTuber, became the first reported fatality involving an e-scooter in Britain, where the government is currently reviewing laws around ridership and scooter companies.
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Subway ridership in New York is in the midst of a resurgence almost unimaginable in the 1970s and '80s when the system was defined by graffiti and crime.
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Doing so would, in essence, privatize the profitable elements of transit service (those routes with high ridership), while forcing the public sector to pick up the slack elsewhere.
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The service can "optimize limited resources while offering more seamless and convenient bus journeys for commuters in areas or during timings with low or unpredictable ridership", it said.
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It also identified that requests made in Pittsburgh coincide with when bars close and Uber ridership in Miami peaks at the same times as drunk-driving related crashes.
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The report found that only 1.5 percent of total daily ridership actually occurs during those hours, and asserts that the population can instead be serviced by overnight buses.
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Total ridership on Washington's Metrorail system dropped 220006 percent in fiscal 2202 compared to the previous year, according to a report released by the transit agency on Tuesday.
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Discounted prices can be a hard sell for Uber drivers, who'll make less per ride, but the company promises that increased ridership will make up for lower fares.
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The company grew its active ridership by more than five times from the first quarter of 2016 to the end of last year, according to a regulatory filing.
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Instead, Uber has decided to periodically release its own in-house reports on ridership, sustainability, and emissions—all of which are provided with unclear methodology, and inherent bias.
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As subway ridership climbs into dangerously unsustainable territory, the tram stands as a reminder that getting around a densely urban environment doesn't have to be a masochistic experience.
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With ridership booming on New York City's aging subway system, the authority also devoted funding for station improvements and updated signal systems to allow more trains to operate.
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Keep it here for three months, and if they say, 'Wait a second, you guys lied—the ridership just isn't there,' they can take the boat somewhere else.
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To put out surveys to the public, to get their feedback, and to collect data to see how popular or how much ridership is happening through this program.
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Voom declined to share ridership or revenue figures thus far, but Monnet said the company has shuttled "tens of thousands" of passengers in Mexico and Brazil so far.
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Subway ridership in New York is in the midst of a resurgence almost unimaginable in the 1970s and '80s, when the system was defined by graffiti and crime.
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So, if ridership plummets, that argument becomes harder, especially if government budgets become stressed bailing out all the other at-risk businesses and populations that need more money.
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With a nearly 88% decline in week-over-week ridership, BART, which services the San Francisco Bay Area, will start shutting down three hours earlier at 9 p.m.
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While giving him overall good marks, Mr. Munro said that the TTC has been working on a "ridership growth strategy" for about two years without producing anything concrete.
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Though citywide taxi ridership numbers for March are not yet available, some taxi companies, cab owners and drivers said their rides had plunged by two-thirds or more.
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It cites statistics for 2016 showing that about 85,000 people use trains in the wee hours — a mere 1.5 percent of the average weekday ridership of 5.7 million.
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Uber's CFO said its ridership has tanked by as much as 50% in cities hit hard by the coronavirus, and new data shows that Lyft is suffering too.
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Despite growth in Lyft's bike and scooter business, that faces a slew of challenges as well, from technical defects to an expected decrease in ridership during the winter.
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The move comes during the winter months, when most scooter companies see a significant dip in ridership, and amid reports about the industry's struggles to turn a profit.
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It's not just a moral responsibility for the agency but a real one to care for the assets it owns, especially when ridership is six million every weekday.
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But the rollout of a new signal network is unfolding at a glacial pace even as the subway system is straining under the demands of a booming ridership.
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For its part, Amtrak has often had to fight for federal money even as it struggled to meet the challenge of accommodating its booming ridership in the Northeast.
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"We're not going to blame the delays on the increased ridership," said Mr. Prendergast, who uses the subway and railroad to commute to his home in Putnam County.
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Spend money, in other words, but only do so when extra money is likely to generate extra ridership — primarily by making the key connection as fast as possible.
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Subways and buses have absorbed much of the city's growth in recent decades as subway ridership has hit levels not seen since the middle of the last century.
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Here are WMATA's latest tweets from Saturday — on the Women's March on Washington, which is, among other things, a stand against Trump's sexism: Metro Ridership as of 11am: 275k.
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Based on one of the images VanderZanden tweeted, it seems that figure is based on a period of four weeks in the summer, when scooter ridership is likely higher.
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The state's direct subsidy for the agency's operating budget has decreased 90 percent in the last dozen years, according to transit experts, even as ridership has grown 20 percent.
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An estimated 225,000 people ride the L train between Manhattan and Brooklyn every day, which is more people than the daily ridership of Baltimore, LA, and Miami's systems combined.
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At a subsidy rate of 22 percent — and assuming the ridership would grow annually by 23 percent — Uber would receive roughly a million dollars per year from the city.
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Salzberg, Uber's transportation policy official, says this role fits perfectly with the company's mission of getting more people into fewer cars, and with transit agencies' need to maintain ridership.
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The letter explained that the shutdown resulted in Metrorail ridership dropping by 28503 percent and Metrobus dropping by 22019 percent each weekday and is putting future funding in jeopardy.
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The approach of both companies is similar, using relatively simple vehicle designs and serving low-volume ridership in areas where traffic and pedestrian patterns are relatively easy to anticipate.
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In fact, the MTA reported that in 2016, 42 Street-Times Square was the busiest station in the city, with an annual ridership of more than 64 million people.
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Reducing the number of operators could make it financially feasible to run routes that serve only a few customers, or to vary routes throughout the day based on ridership.
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The first part of the line, which cost about $217 billion, is expected to ease overcrowding as subway ridership in the city climbs to its highest level since 272.
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With automobiles becoming the dominant form of transportation in Southern California, along with the advent of commercial air travel, rail ridership began to decline sharply in the mid-1950s.
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In recent years, the Staten Island Ferry has seen growing ridership, with about 67,600 riders on weekdays, up from about 61,500 weekday riders in 2013, the Transportation Department said.
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CityLab's Laura Bliss reports: Ridership across New York City's MTA, the nation's largest public transit system, fell by 60% on subways and as much as 90% on commuter trains.
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Mr. Stringer said his analysis used publicly released M.T.A. data in evaluating the frequency and length of delays, and the ridership for each subway line during morning rush hours.
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In fact, recently released statistics show that in 2017, ridership fell to its lowest level in at least eight years — mostly because far fewer people are taking the bus.
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From 2005 through 2016, the last year for which data was available, annual ridership on the New Haven Line rose about 19 percent to 40.48 million from 33.89 million.
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Ridership on Statue Cruises, which runs boats from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty and nearby Ellis Island, declined by up to 70 percent, according to the release.
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In New York, where other data has also suggested that ride-hailing lures riders away from public transit, officials have speculated about Uber's role in recent declining subway ridership.
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BART, the Bay Area's largest transit operator, has seen ridership drop and is losing an estimated $57 million a month in sales taxes, fares, advertising revenue, and parking fees.
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However, amid all the discussion of technological accomplishment and potential societal progress, I could not help but wonder about the "utopian" idea of the shared ridership of autonomous cars.
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Even worse, a reduction in service in response to plunging ridership has sometimes caused crowding and has made it impossible to maintain the social distancing public health experts recommend.
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Lateefah Simon, the president of Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco, said in a letter that her agency will see rapid drops in ridership in the coming months.
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Now, with M14s moving along largely unimpeded, officials said they hope the buses will attract more passengers, which would reverse the overall trend of declining ridership across the city.
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The Times recently reported that 14 percent of the scheduled trains on the Lexington Avenue line, the busiest in the system, are effectively canceled even as ridership has increased.
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System ridership has declined, in part due to unreliable and poorly connected routes and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's "failure to follow its own standards and schedules," the report said.
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Ridership is expected to eventually rise as high as 623,262 daily as more commuters return to work from the holiday break and become familiar with the line, they said.
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Three ferries, two from Glen Cove on Long Island and one from Long Island City, Queens, offer rides, although the railroad was unable to provide ridership data on Friday.
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Upgrading the signals is expensive, but an even bigger challenge is scheduling work on such a vast system where ridership is always high, even on weekends, Mr. Prendergast said.
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As ridership exploded on the L line, which runs between Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan, the agency did not have enough train cars built to communicate with the new signals.
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Most successful free systems are limited to buses and are typically found in resort areas (to shuttle large numbers of tourists), college towns, or communities with low ridership levels.
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TransitCenter found that the seven U.S cities which grew transit ridership last year did so by either expanding bus service or completely overhauling their bus systems to improve service.
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For the full-year of 2019, Brightline will likely miss its own goal for ridership and revenue by a wide margin, the South Florida Business Journal reported in December.
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The City of Lights has poured $220 billion into a project that promises four new lines and 27 new stations by 22000, which could boost overall ridership by 40 percent.
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Lyft is seeing record ridership, including an all-time high of 13.9 million rides during July, first reported by Recode and confirmed by TechCrunch via sources familiar with the matter.
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Emily Hartridge, 35, became the first reported fatality involving an e-scooter in Britain, where the government is currently reviewing laws and public education campaigns around ridership and scooter companies.
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"Transdev believed it was within the requirements of the testing and demonstration project previously approved by NHTSA for ridership by adults and children using the same route," the company writes.
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Uber believes the rate cuts will drive an increase in ridership, citing a doubling in the number of UberX trips in the outer boroughs the last time rates were dropped.
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The number of trips by all vehicle types in the CBD remained flat between 2014 and 2015 as increases in transit ridership offset increases in trip demand driven by growth.
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And Uber's Salzberg acknowledged that his company has been less forthcoming with ridership data than some of its older competitors, but said that times have changed — and competition has intensified.
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And for scooter startups, city regulations can make or break their businesses across nearly every aspect of operations, especially two major ones: ridership growth and ability to attract investor dollars.
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By the 1920s, the city laid claim to the largest trolley network in the world, and at its peak boasted a per-capita ridership greater than present day San Francisco's.
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Annual subway ridership, which in 21979 had dipped below one billion for the first time since 19913, rebounded by 21991 to the highest weekday average in two decades, 2360 billion.
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More infrastructure means more comrades-in-wheels: The folks at Portland State University found that when five major US cities added protected bike lanes, ridership rose 20 to 170 percent.
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The Dodger Stadium tunnel will initially be limited to some 1,400 passengers per event, about 2.5 percent of the ballpark's capacity, but ridership could eventually be doubled, Boring's website said.
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On the East Coast, older systems like the century-old subway networks in New York and Boston are struggling to both maintain aging equipment and expand to meet rising ridership.
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That day, it turned out, the New York subways set a modern record by carrying 6,245,22000 passengers — double the ridership of the busiest days of the 21980s and early 21990s.
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Uber statistics, he said, show that ridership in neighborhoods such as East New York in Brooklyn and Kingsbridge in the Bronx had more than doubled since this time last year.
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In San Francisco, rail ridership on BART was down a staggering 213% as of Tuesday, and the SFMTA's buses and railcars had plummeted 35% by the end of last week.
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Mr. Stringer also pointed to five subway lines — 4, 5, 7, A and F — for causing the biggest economic losses in his analysis based on heavy ridership and frequent delays.
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The result: Scooters typically produce more emissions than a standard bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a regular bicycle, or a good old carbon-free walk.
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There are two nearby stations on the No. 7 line: Court Square and Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue, both of which have seen a major increase in ridership in recent years.
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Op-Art In recent months, with New York's increasingly woebegone subway system struggling to fix its problems, a conundrum has emerged: As the city's population grows, subway ridership is falling.
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The city and county of San Francisco's public transit system is shuttering its train and light rail services and replacing them with buses as ridership plummets amid a coronavirus pandemic.
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It's still part of the ride-hailing industry, and part of the vicious cycle that brings more cars to the road and reduces ridership — and therefore funding — on public transit.
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Uber and Lyft, already fighting to turn profitable following their largely disappointing public offerings last year, have seen massive drops in ridership as the pandemic forces people to stay home.
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Researchers have noted a downturn in public transit ridership when ride-hail comes to town, a trend that would disappoint in Vancouver, which has invested for decades in transit infrastructure.
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After weighing the price tag to install electronic fare-card readers on buses, the agency eventually determined it could increase ridership more by doing away with fares, according to OPB.
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Mr. Schaller found that ridership in New York of Uber and other apps had tripled to about 16 million passengers in October 2016, from about five million in June 43.
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New York's century-old subway is straining to handle nearly six million passengers each day — its greatest ridership since the 1940s and up from about four million in the 232s.
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By deemphasizing its focus on ridership numbers, Kansas City is taking a risk on a less popular mode of transportation, in the hopes that it can improve bus usage overall.
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He added that the "unilateral decision flies in the face of the work that the M.T.A. has done" with city transportation officials to speed up bus times and increase ridership.
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The number of train and bus trips in Los Angeles has dropped in recent years, though he blamed that on low gas prices and national trends in declining transit ridership.
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When Uber arrived in New York City in 21.2, subway ridership was soaring and the medallions required to drive a yellow cab were selling for a sky-high $22008 million.
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Account for an average weekday ridership at Union Square of 107,141 people, and each of those commuters is worth between an eighth of a cent and two-and-a-half cents.
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"Uber kept dropping prices every season to gain more ridership to satisfy their growth, and it didn't matter to Uber if the driver is not even making minimum wage," he said.
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Another candidate has proposed a limited version of the plan, and others heading into Tuesday's primary have said the idea is worth considering, along with other schemes to boost transit ridership.
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Uber and Lyft have made traffic worse in San Francisco, according to a recent study in Science, while reducing public transit ridership, according to a study by University of Kentucky researchers.
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E.S.T. : This article was updated to include Bird's most recent ridership and product statistics, to clarify Bird's Save Our Sidewalks pledge, and to include Bird's introduction to the San Francisco market.
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Public transit detractors (and yes, there are still plenty) will point to a recent study that Metro ridership actually dipped last year and hasn't actually removed that many cars from roads.
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GROWING RIDERSHIP San Francisco-based Lyft is positioned to become the first IPO from a group of highly valued, venture-backed companies including Pinterest and Slack expected go public this year.
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Instead, the Republican delegation is going after a rail extension that is much smaller in scope than high-speed rail and has less room for future cost overruns or ridership shortfalls.
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Eric Goldwyn, an urban planner, compared a week's worth of ridership data from the B41 bus route along Flatbush Avenue with average travel times of dollar vans making the same trip.
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Lawyers for Kings County asked the judge to block the state from spending money on the project, arguing that the state's projections on ridership, construction and operating figures were not reliable.
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This weekend, the M.T.A. is hosting the New York City Bus Hackathon, sharing ridership and performance data from the Staten Island bus system with software developers publicly for the first time.
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Per sources: The initial deal included a provision that Uber would earn a 10-15% stake in Jump if it generated a certain level of ridership for the bike-share company.
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