Congratulations to Spokane Transit Authority! STA broke their record for ridership in 2012, providing over 11 million rides on fixed-route buses. What’s impressive about this though is that this record comes just one year after a servicre reduction that many felt would have a lasting effect on the system’s ridership numbers. Here’s the press release from STA and some other impressive numbers they wracked up last year.
We have been so lucky that STA was planning ahead, so we did not have the massive cuts some transits ended up with. I know STA expected less riders after the last cuts, and it turned out that did not happen, so now I hope the economy comes back and STA can expand again.
That would be great! We've just proven that people are going to ride, even with lower gas prices and less routes, so it would be nice to ramp it up again so even more people could use transit.