How to Use ridership in a Sentence

ridership

noun
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  • The subway has, for a great part of the day, the ideal amount of ridership.
    — Curbed, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But there’s more that could be done to improve Class 1 Routes and bike ridership across our city.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Travel times remained about the same, though, because of the increase in ridership, the study found.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • These students made up 22% of ridership in the program last school year.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024
  • Indeed, most of the September ridership came from the Red Line stop, Gill said.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2021
  • And some of the big cities that have waived fares still haven’t regained pre-pandemic ridership.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Hop ridership dropped 28% during the RNC compared to the same week the previous year.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, service, ridership, and speed across the entire Red Line are all down since the T added new slow zones last year.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In some ways, though, the growing crowds are part of the piece, which Simpson always envisioned with the flow of ridership in mind.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
  • Car traffic is up and subway and bus riderships are down.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The dismal ridership may have something to do with the dismal service.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • The riders lean younger, and there’s a larger percentage of female ridership than on the bus.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Even now, ridership is only up to about half of 2019 levels.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The South Shore Line’s ridership has slowly increased since last month.
    — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In the first nine months of the pandemic, ridership ranged from 2.5 million to 3.6 million rides per month on buses and MAX trains.
    — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
  • But that trickle-down effect hasn’t been enough to sustain and grow the Classic ridership.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Metro had three of its top pandemic-era ridership days last week.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • With trains that will be added to the schedule, Noland said, the railroad expects to more than triple its daily ridership from Michigan City.
    — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • That's a nearly 40% increase in ridership from last year.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The drop in ridership has also made the presence of homeless people on the trains more visible.
    — Fox News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Since the city eliminated fares on the 28 bus this summer, ridership has soared.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The first free-fare days, held last August, led to a 5% bump in bus ridership and 12% jump in FrontRunner passengers.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • TriMet saw a nearly 70% drop in ridership at the beginning of the pandemic.
    — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Growing transit ridership in the San Diego region and elsewhere has not been easy.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • Uber and Lyft were taking a pretty heavy toll on transit ridership.
    — Kari Edison Watkins, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Han is a precise man with a strict schedule, but throughout the day, time inevitably warps around the cadence of his aging ridership.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • About half of the monthly ridership has returned to the train line, which links Springfield and New Haven with daily commuter rail service.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 26 July 2021
  • The big picture: Overall ridership on the system in the last fiscal year climbed back to 85% of its pre-pandemic level.
    — Andrew Keatts, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
  • That would delineate potential ridership, revenue, number of trips, project costs and more.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Lieberman said weekend ridership increased the most, providing half-hourly weekend train services instead of hourly.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024

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