"ridership" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to the total number of people or vehicles that use a particular transportation service in a particular period of time. For example: "The rise in ridership for the city's public transit system has been steadily increasing over the past five years."
Grabar discusses the potential problems of the new network: a small projected ridership (would the proposed cable car be more popular?), low employment density along the city's coastline, administrative obstacles and weather dependence.
The Associated Press reports:At the same time ridership has been increasing, Republicans have stepped up their campaign to end federal subsidies to Amtrak.
"Ridership is just skyrocketing," says Elizabeth Preston of the League of American Bicyclists, a Washington, DC, advocacy group (even cyclists have lobbyists these days).
The governor says the rail line, which he calls a "boondoggle," wouldn't have as high of a ridership as currently projected citing a study from the Reason Foundation.
In America, where a dozen cities have built rail-transit systems since the late 1970s, total ridership in 1995 was no higher than in 1977 (see chart 5)—in part, perhaps, because the average speed for fully fledged underground lines was less than 34km per hour (21 miles per hour), for tram lines only 23km per hour.
A tiny reversal in growth in the fourth quarter of 2010 attributed to the economy and lower petrol prices at the pump has already been passed with large increases in ridership since.
The line has already far surpassed its expected daily ridership for the year 2020.
But it lags far behind other first-world countries in ridership.
In the two years after CCAP's launch public-transport ridership rose, millions of gallons of water were conserved, hundreds of hybrid buses were added to Chicago's fleet and over 13,000 housing units and nearly 400 commercial buildings were retrofitted for energy efficiency.In this section Ground Zero plus ten Micro scope Not enough lawyers?
It somehow manages to hit record ridership levels (on an average weekday, 5m souls cram in) while using antiquated and neglected tracks and tunnels.Transit officials and politicians broke ground on the Second Avenue line in East Harlem with great fanfare last week.
Ridership for 2008 is up 12% so far, according to AFP.
