How to Use ridership in a Sentence

ridership

noun
  • Bus and light rail ridership are in a freefall.
    — Steve Weil, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Yes, keep large ones for routes that have large ridership.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2026
  • Bunch says ridership stayed stable at a time when most cities saw steep drops.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Stopfer said the bottom line comes down to ridership.
    — Lilly Kersh, Dallas Morning News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The subway has, for a great part of the day, the ideal amount of ridership.
    — Curbed, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That should help with growing ridership.
    — Graham Rapier, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2026
  • Those figures account for some loss of ridership in response to the hikes.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Transit ridership is still sluggish in many cities.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The new stations will create the need for new ridership models.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • These students made up 22% of ridership in the program last school year.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024
  • Let’s get the ridership-estimating team right to work on this.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • 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
  • Since then, ridership has dropped, and now the hulking structure is seen as little more than an eyesore.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The train has faced scrutiny for its derailments and ridership in the past.
    — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The dismal ridership may have something to do with the dismal service.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • 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
  • Travel times remained about the same, though, because of the increase in ridership, the study found.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • For Clemente, the value of the ferry is more that a measure of its ridership or a line item on the budget.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2025
  • However, as the low ridership of the Caltrain shows, the trip time must not increase very much.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • At the same time, ridership in each region jumped by about 1 million passengers.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But as paved roads began to stretch further and further from the city, ridership steadily declined.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This, in turn, led to record-breaking subway ridership in the 2010s.
    — Eric Goldwyn, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • That would have brought ridership closer to pre-pandemic levels.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The South Shore Line’s ridership has slowly increased since last month.
    — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Bus ridership decreased by 2% and light rail by 18% over that period.
    — Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, ridership at the station has tripled since the 1960s.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Xu also said ridership is expected to be lower for a newer service.
    — Mel Fronczek, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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