How to Use ridership in a Sentence

ridership

noun
  • 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
  • Back in 2016, there were hopes for high ridership and an end to all the bickering that led to the final build.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2020
  • This, in turn, led to record-breaking subway ridership in the 2010s.
    — Eric Goldwyn, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Travel times remained about the same, though, because of the increase in ridership, the study found.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Despite the decline in ridership at the time, many Parisians had fond memories of the overnight train to Nice.
    — Chris O'Brien, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • These students made up 22% of ridership in the program last school year.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024
  • Traffic is down, ridership is up, and the MTA raised $100 million from the program in just two months.
    — David Garten, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
  • However, as the low ridership of the Caltrain shows, the trip time must not increase very much.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Both the bus and rail dashboards are based on the average ridership over the prior two weeks, CTA said.
    — Abdel Jimenez, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Hop ridership dropped 28% during the RNC compared to the same week the previous year.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
  • That would be a 20% boost over BART’s current ridership.
    — Jerry McNerney, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Wednesday said that through July, UTA ridership for the year was down by 60% — and fare revenue was down by 46%.
    — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The work was easier while ridership was down and fewer drivers were on the roads.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • 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
  • In the Bay Area, as elsewhere, car traffic is starting to pick up — but not transit ridership.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The drop in ridership during the pandemic has helped push down overall crime.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Traffic is down, commutes are faster and mass transit ridership is up.
    — Winnie Hu, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • Murphy attributed that to Friday being the day with the least ridership on a normal basis.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 16 May 2025

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