[PRCo] Cleveland Riders

[Schneider Fred]

Here is an unusual news release ...   Cleveland may be the only place  
in the United States where bus ridership is up 4.3 times more than  
rail ridership.   I can see the bus and highway fanatics jumping on  
these numbers.
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RTA news

Aug. 20, 2008

Ridership up 6 percent in July

CLEVELAND – High gas prices drove more people to use public transit  
last month, says the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA).

System-wide, ridership in July 2008 was about 6 percent higher than  
July 2007, or about 280,000 rides.

Daily ridership was up 2.61 percent, an increase of about 5,000  
rides. RTA now carries 193,700 persons on an average weekday.

Bus ridership increased 6.9 percent – the highest July total since 1998.

Rapid ridership was up 1.6 percent.

Community Circulators showed a 1.6 percent gain.

Paratransit ridership is up more than 13 percent.

With more than 90,000 rides, trolley usage was up more than 72  
percent over last year.

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