ridership
noun
rid·er·ship
ˈrī-dər-ˌship 
: the number of persons who ride a system of public transportation
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With the riderships of BART and Caltrain way down, their business models no longer work.
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David Schonbrunn, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
From 2001 to 2019, traffic deaths along all of New York City’s 6,000 miles of roadway dropped by over 44 percent—from 394 to just 219—even as the number of pedestrians on the city’s streets increased and bike ridership tripled.
—Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
Student ridership accounts for more than a quarter of all Sacramento Regional Transit rides on bus and light rail, up from 8% before RydeFree was launched in 2019.
—Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
Trinity Metro’s 37 fixed bus routes have a ridership of hundreds of thousands every month.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
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David Schonbrunn, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
From 2001 to 2019, traffic deaths along all of New York City’s 6,000 miles of roadway dropped by over 44 percent—from 394 to just 219—even as the number of pedestrians on the city’s streets increased and bike ridership tripled.
—Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
Student ridership accounts for more than a quarter of all Sacramento Regional Transit rides on bus and light rail, up from 8% before RydeFree was launched in 2019.
—Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
Trinity Metro’s 37 fixed bus routes have a ridership of hundreds of thousands every month.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
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“Ridership.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridership. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.
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