Noun
ridership (countable and uncountable, plural riderships)
(collective) The people who ride a form of transportation.
The bus company was going bankrupt because their ridership was too small.
Before the opening of the second line, 30,856,515 passengers rode the Santo Domingo Metro in 2012. citation With both lines opened, ridership increased to 61,270,054 passengers in 2014. Source: Internet
BART is struggling figuring out how to boost ridership, but all the disinfecting in the world can't change that riding trains requires being in an enclosed space with strangers for an extended period of time. Source: Internet
Calgary Transit says the routes being replaced with on-demand service had low ridership, even before the pandemic. Source: Internet
As with the commuter rail system, many of the outlying routes were dropped shortly before or after the takeover due to low ridership and high operating costs. Source: Internet
Buses An MBTA bus boards customers at Downtown Crossing 162 MBTA Bus routes operate within the Greater Boston area, with a combined ridership of approximately 375,000 one-way trips per day, making it the seventh-busiest local bus agency in the country. Source: Internet
Even with ridership plummeting and only 620 passes given out in June, the city is on the hook to pay out its contract to BC Transit. Source: Internet