Ridership on AC Transit, California’s largest bus-only transit agency, marked its first consecutive three-month year-over-year gain since the COVID pandemic.
The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District posted a 6% increase in February, adding 192,875 monthly riders compared to the previous year; 8% in March, up 270,247, and 3% in April, a gain of 108,379.
“This is far more than incremental ridership growth,” Sal Llamas, general manager of the district, said in a news release Friday.
The district credited the increase to schedule adjustments that rolled out Feb. 1.
The numbers reflect refinements that “are responding directly to what riders and frontline employees told us mattered most in their daily lives,” Llamas said.
“From reliability and trip timing to stronger connections across the East Bay, we are seeing riders step on board with renewed confidence,” he said.
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