And the Chicago Transit Authority has increased ridership with real-time bus tracking and arrival times.
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Some urban rail and bus services have reported increased ridership as gas prices have gone up.
Smith is one of 66, 000 disgruntled riders--0.3% of total ridership--who bothered to file complaints last year.
Ten metropolitan areas, mostly on the coasts, account for nearly two-thirds of its ridership.
Traffic speed increased by 25% during business hours and bus ridership by 6%.
Statistics from the Long Island Rail Road showed ridership in December had dropped 16% from December 2011.
The Barcelona to Madrid line, which opened four years ago, has also seen an increase in ridership.
But rail ridership has risen in the U.S. in recent years, as has spending in the sector.
Nearly 90 percent of the rail service's ridership since 1997 has been on trips under 400 miles.
Ridership has increased an average of about 126 riders per day per route, or about 2 percent.
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And the east Asian city-states have the political positions, density and robust transit ridership to make it work.
SEPTA, whose average weekday ridership is about 830, 000, said it planned to restart commuter train service early Wednesday.
Bloomberg reports that ridership on Acela is down 10% for October-January from the same period a year ago.
Far from being sidelined, it has pleaded for greater investment to open up new high-speed routes and encourage more ridership.
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But during the recession, the nation's aging air traffic system has enjoyed a reprieve in the form of sagging ridership.
The bike coalition also handles bikes for culinary and music festivals in the city, and believes the service boosts bike ridership.
Increased ridership varied on different routes between 1.8 percent and 2.2 percent on routes that typically carry 5761 to 6876 rides per day.
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"These investments will create jobs, spur economic development and continue to build on the growth of ridership we've seen in recent years, " she said.
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But according to a DePaul University study, ridership on discount intercity bus services the kind that pick you up at the curb grew 30% last year.
Since the Chicago Transit Authority implemented its Bus Tracker system, ridership gains have been only modest, warn authors Lei Tang and Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah.
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These areas are marked by everything that density advocates detest: They have very low levels of transit ridership and are largely dominated by single-family homes.
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"It's way too much money for the anticipated ridership, " she said.
System-wide ridership peaked at 4.85 million, and RFTA essentially reached capacity.
Speaking of rail, Obama renewed calls for more of it, despite uniform agreement among experts that the cost and ridership numbers do not and cannot add up.
About ridership, about how great it is to invest in infrastructure, about jobs created, carbon savings and even leave aside the way that the benefits always seem to be projected hugely high.
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Tang and Thakuriah studied changes in ridership from 2002 to 2010 and adjusted for many other factors, including fare price, gasoline price, weather, and employment levels, to isolate the effect of Bus Tracker and Train Tracker.
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Talking about the proposed "M1" light-rail line named for the state-highway designation of Detroit's Woodward Avenue Mr. LaHood pledged "unwavering" support and lauded its potential to spur job growth and expand mass transit throughout the region, despite sketchy ridership estimates.
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