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COTA ridership rolling higher

October 3, 2008 by walkerevans

COTA ridership rolling higher
The Dispatch – Friday, October 3, 2008

Bus ridership continues to thrive because of high gas prices.

The Central Ohio Transit Authority said the average weekday ridership on its fixed-route bus lines was 61,074 for the week ending Sept. 28, the highest such number since the first week of December 2001.

There were 8,000 more boardings for the week this year than during the same week in 2007.
Total ridership on fixed-route buses last week was 347,000, up about 15.6 percent from the same week in 2007.

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on March 9, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Reply COTA Ridership Up, but Still Room for Improvement « Xing Columbus

[...] One bit of data in the report made me wonder how COTA was doing compared to other transit agencies. The figure of 57,000 trips per day seemed like a very small number of daily riders to me. Charlotte has around 14,000 trips per day on just its light rail line. That would be a quarter of COTA’s ridership in a much smaller city. Chicago has individual bus routes that serve over 30,000 trps per day. So does this ridership gain represent Columbus truly turning a corner and becoming a transit city or are we still lagging? I decided to dig a little deeper. Rather than use the APTA ridership report cited by COTA, I went to the National Transit Database homepage to check out the monthly database. Unfortunately, the latest monthly data are from August, 2008, but COTA was still doing very well at the time. [...]