Sentences with word «ridership»

«I expect we're going to have an increase in ridership in New York,» he predicted Friday.

This growth is attributable to increasing ridership in existing systems as well as the launch of several major new bike share systems across the country.

In this manner, it (gas tax) would be adjusted to match the previous and projected short term trends in ridership of public transporation (which is what we want), increases in gas mileage (which is also what we want), and fewer drivers; as boomers begin to retire in droves (which is what we've inherited).

Transit ridership on the facility is expected to increase by 26 percent in the near term and double within 20 years.

The American Public Transportation Association released a study last week showing that public transit ridership in rural and small towns has grown 8 percent between 2007 and 2015, despite declining rural populations.

Build the BRT, address the needs of current riders, and grow ridership by investing in improved reliability and affordability so that all Bay residents have better access to equitable and sustainable transportation now and in the future.

In addition, the company has been unable to expand system capacity to meet the demand of growing ridership in recent years.

And New Yorker's investment in more safe infrastructure has enabled Citi Bike riders to keep breaking daily ridership records, proving the nation's largest bike share program an unequivocal success.

For every underperformer like San Jose, there's a Phoenix, with ridership substantially higher than projected.

Citi Bike has far and away the highest ridership volume of any bike share system in the nation, and is on par with the largest bike share systems in the Western hemisphere.

Annual bus ridership fell by 16 % between 2002 and 2015, with decreases concentrated primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Lawmakers want a portion of that money to be dedicated to local public transit agencies to help them deal with expected ridership declines to the new services and to help fund programs to expand transportation options for disabled people.

After a protected bike lane was installed on Chicago's Kinzie Street: Bicycle ridership on increased 55 percent, according to morning rush hour counts; Forty - one percent of respondents changed their usual route to take advantage of the new lane; Bicyclists accounted for a majority of all eastbound traffic (53 percent) and more than one third (34 percent) of total street traffic during a CDOT traffic count conducted during morning rush hour in August 2011.

(Remember that bicycling also increases a great deal as ridership increases.)

From the late 1980s onward, US light rail ridership projections were usually correct.

Not surprisingly, this bus route has one of the lowest ridership rates in the city; but then why ride the Red Rocket, as Torontonian lovingly call their transit system, when you can rocket around in the latest Ferrari?

And thanks to a popular and growing minibus network, the annual ridership numbers for the Metro were only 12.1 million in 2004, one of the lowest in the world.

If Citi Bike hopes to continue to be the only large bike - share in the U.S. without public funding, it should consider raising its annual membership fees and boosting ridership by tourists and other infrequent users, business and industry experts say.

The five competing companies will duel for ridership over the next six months; they can deploy up to 400 bikes each, per their agreement with D.C. officials.

For the third time since May, Citi Bike has broken a daily ridership record and in doing so eclipsed the 60,000 trip mark for the first time ever.

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.

This effort increased membership in the majority - Black neighborhood by 56 % while rides in the area more than tripled (overall ridership on Citi Bike increased 40 % in 2016, to a total of 14 million trips).

In 2016 alone, riders took over 28 million trips, on par with the annual ridership of the entire Amtrak system, and higher than the number of people visiting Walt Disney World each year.

As of the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2013, the average weekday ridership on the San Diego Trolley system was 119,800, [3] making it the fourth busiest Light rail system in the United States.

Private ferry ridership also jumped citywide to 11.2 million riders — a 3 percent increase — which the report credited largely to the May 1 and June 1 launches, respectively, of the Rockaway and South Brooklyn routes on the NYC Ferry service.

Subway ridership averages 5.8 million people a day, dwarfing the services provided by the MTA's bus and commuter railroad companies.

in Queens, but advocates said it was not enough to accommodate the latest MTA figures showing ridership at its highest level since 1950.

New York City will spend $ 300 million to expand its ferry fleet and double passenger capacity, after ridership exceeded expectations in NYC Ferry's inaugural year.

Increasing Metro ridership, the authority says, could have several benefits for community members.

Providing real - time passenger information and estimated times of arrival via cellular networks, the bus stops improve ridership and allow transport agencies to take proactive control of their fleet, reducing strain on resources.

NACTO's latest bike share ridership report, Bike Share in the -LSB-...]

The initiative also aims to grow ridership among women, whom studies have shown are more likely to ride in safer traffic environments with features like protected bike lanes and one - way streets.

Systemwide ridership dropped from 31.6 million annual commuters in 1992 to 26.3 million this year, a decline that reflects national trends.

«The NYPD has done an incredible job of keeping crimes in check even while ridership rises, which is why the risk of being the victim of a felony on the subway is roughly one in a million,» said spokesman Adam Lisberg in an email.

Boston started its Hubway bike share to great acclaim in 2011, quickly surpassing ridership projections.

There are fewer trains running at off - peak hours, when those workers are more likely to use the subway, and the MTA has not kept up with growing ridership between the hours of 5 and 7 a.m., or 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.

Close to 500,000 passengers rode the new service to and from Wall Street since this summer, surpassing the city's anticipated ridership of 409,000, according to the City Council's office.

The national increase in ridership also comes from work in cities around the country to make bike share more affordable to a wide cross-section of people.

But maintenance failures on existing lines and falling ridership have undermined the region's reputation as a beacon of mass transit.

Factors that inform this process include ridership levels, the number of bus - to - bus and bus - to - subway transfers, proximity to key facilities (such as hospitals, schools and senior centers) and the surrounding neighborhood's level of dependency on bus service.

Robert Cruickshank, a longtime critic of P3 approaches, comments that «the key is that whatever the private sector's role is, it has to be subordinate to the effective operation of the system, including maximizing ridership so that the system can play as large a role as possible in meeting the state's transportation and carbon reduction needs.

Citi Bike consistently breaks its own ridership records year after year.

I doubt the dramatic ridership growth because bicyclists are afraid they will need to make a U-turn somewhere along their route.

The clean energy economy is shaking up the system - 74 percent of all new power generation in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2014 came from solar, and public transit ridership continues to soar.

This year Citi Bike broke records with 23 days over 60,000 trips and a peak ridership day of nearly 70,000 trips.

Increase public transport ridership.

It also boasts the highest bike ridership in the country.

Lyft has expanded to 150 new cities this year and seen ridership skyrocket.

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