Riders * USA - Pack buses in record numbers
The buses handled an estimated 110 million boardings last year
Seattle,Wash,Usa -The Seattle Times, by Mike Lindblom & Susan Gilmore -25 Jan 2008: -- Seattle ranks seventh in the U.S. in the proportion of workers within city limits who commute using public transportation. And as traffic and the cost of gasoline and parking continue to rise, so does the incentive to ride the bus... The combination of a growing work force and $3-per-gallon gasoline is luring record numbers of riders onto King County Metro buses... The buses handled an estimated 110 million boardings last year, nearly a 7 percent increase over the 2006 number, the agency reported Wednesday. It is the largest increase in at least a decade, officials said. Buses handled about 365,000 boardings per weekday... Bigger crowds aren't a surprise to commuters. Several people waiting for buses at the Pioneer Square station in the downtown Seattle bus tunnel said it's often tough to find a seat on their routes to South King County... (Photo: King County Metro saw its biggest ridership gain in 10 years in 2007. Relief may be on the way for packed-in passengers: Next month, Metro receives the first 22 of 122 buses promised in the 2006 "Transit Now" ballot measure)Labels: statistics
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