Blue Line trolley extension appears to be drawing new riders but not enough to offset overall decline in riders over the last decade
San Diegans have been hopping on buses and trolleys in increasingly larger numbers over the last several months, although ridership is still down sharply from last decade.
MTS had been seeing ridership as high as 7 million to 8 million trips a month before the coronavirus shut down the economy. Then it bottomed out at about 2.2 million in April 2020 before rebounding to more than 5 million trips a month two years later.Transit officials have said the opening of the Blue Line trolley extension between downtown and University City has helped. Before the pandemic, ridership on the bus far outpaced the trolley.
Emergency federal funding has kept transit afloat since the start of the pandemic, but many agencies, such as Bay Area Rapid Transit, are now staring at the need for potentially deep service cuts.
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