Word: ridership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith said ridership rose 15 per cent compared to July 1978 during the gasoline crisis this July, but by September decreased service to cut costs led to a decrease in ridership from last year...
Before adjourning, the Senate displayed another sign of independence. The White House had called for a 43% reduction in Amtrak routes in order to trim the $600 million annual subsidy. Then came the gas shortage, and Amtrak ridership jumped 24% in June over the year before. So the Senate voted to pare the system by just under 20%. To remain in service, a train must average 150 passengers per mile and lose no more than 7? a mile per passenger. Among the trains that will survive: the New York-New Orleans Southern Crescent, considered the best passenger train...
...past two years, while gas prices steadily increased, the nationwide number of travelers using mass transit has risen an average 4.4% a month over the preceding year, to an estimated 27,775,000 a day. In May, as California began taking the brunt of the first gasoline shortfalls, ridership across the U S Climbed 7.3%. Mass transit experts prediet that the June figures will show an increase "in the double digits," perhaps adding up to a two-month gain of 2 million travelers each...
...effective advocate for it. Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams is a firm supporter, but he lacks the backing of the President and the other Georgians in the White House. After he was forced last spring by Congress to propose drastic cutbacks in Amtrak service at a time when ridership was climbing, Adams lost much of his standing with state and local transportation officials...
...nation's two other relatively new subway-and-elevated train systems are having mixed results. Ridership has purted 15% in the past year on San Francisco-Oakland's seven-year-old BART system (for Bay Area Rapid Transit), but it las been able to handle the crowds efficiently. Washington's newer Metro has coped as best it could but still has too few cars to accommodate the mobs. Even before they leave the first station, trains often have standing room only. Metro also is ridden with bugs: brake defects have forced cars to be withdrawn from service...