Sentence examples for ridership numbers from inspiring English sources

It would leave the summer ridership numbers of places like Portland, Davis or Minneapolis trailing.

With services restored following economy-driven cutbacks, ridership numbers appear set to continue what had been a steady increase.

The reason for low ridership numbers is that the initial planners chose the wrong first segment for the line.

The ticket seller, looking ashen and hollow-eyed as passengers peppered him with queries about the crash, said the ridership numbers always fluctuated, but people whispered that many regulars stayed away out of fright.

Gene Russianoff, staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, said that ridership numbers logged over the last few years by the M.T.A. show that 110,000 subway riders use the A and C lines from Brooklyn through Lower Manhattan every weekday.

Not only will the third track increase capacity and efficiency for commuters to New York City, especially important as overall ridership is up by four million since recent gas price spikes, but it will also provide greater transit access for reverse and intra-Island commuters whose ridership numbers have grown by 82percent and 399 percent, respectively, from 1998 to 2006.

For 1999, the ridership number was 1.3 billion.

Instead, each year WMATA must ask each local jurisdiction to contribute funding, which is determined by a formula that equally considers three factors: population density, as of the 2000 Census; average weekday ridership; number of stations in each jurisdiction.

A recent report by the Government Accountability Office noted that while the train system's projected ridership and revenue numbers appear to be accurate, the current political climate in Congress isn't particularly amenable to having the federal government pony up the $39 billion necessary to cover the project's current funding gap.

The modest decline in business experienced this year by the Long Island Rail Road -- in terms of commuter ridership, or the number of monthly or weekly commutation passes sold, and total revenue -- reflects the trend.

The surge in late trains comes as Metrolink is trying to rebuild ridership and overcome a number of customer service issues such as faulty ticket vending machines, unreliable engines and a lack of amenities for passengers.