Definition of "ridership" []

• The number of passengers who ride a public transport system. (noun)

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• "They feel the boost in ridership is well worth it, especially as any fee-taking system has administrative costs of their own."
• "While some of this reduction in ridership is due to the slowing economy and not rising prices, our policy should be to encourage and not discourage the use of mass transit."
• "Junior reporters, none familiar with the history of the RAV story, are saying that boardings, please stop using the term ridership as it gives the impression that this means ‘riders’, will reach 100,000 per day by 2013."