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Metro released July's ridership numbers this morning. It's up even while gas prices in July plateaued and then began to drop towards the current $4.090/gallon average. Here's how it breaks down via their statement:
- The Metro Red and Purple subway lines and the Metro Gold, Blue, Green and Orange Lines all set weekday ridership records in July 2008 over July 2007.
- 319,582 passengers boarded Metro Rail trains on an average weekday, up 20 percent over a year earlier.
- Nearly half those riders (159,439) rode the Red and Purple Lines, which was up 20 percent over July 2007 when trains carried 132,049 boarding passengers.
- Metro Gold Line between Pasadena and downtown set a record with 27,019 average weekday riders compared to the 19,400 last year July.
- The Metro Green Line connecting Norwalk and El Segundo also set a record with 46,527 boardings, up 19 percent over July 2007.
- Metro Blue Line, which travels from downtown Los Angeles to Long Beach, rose 15 percent over last year with 86,596 average weekday boardings.
- The Metro Orange Line, the 14-mile busway from North Hollywood to Woodland Hills in the Valley, increased weekday ridership by nearly 8 percent over last year to 26,907 boardings.
- Metro bus ridership rose, from 1,152,653 in July 2007 to 1,227,752 -- a growth of 6.5 percent. But LA Times Road Sage Steve Hymon notes that the bus ridership numbers continue to not break records.
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