Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
You on the bus?
Mass-transit ridership up — locally and nationally
Even though gas prices fell significantly during the past year, public use of mass transit hit a 58-year high in 2014, according to a March 9 report from the American Public Transit Association.
San Diego Trolley ridership was up 15.3 percent last year, accounting for the second-largest demand spike in the U.S. Oceanside saw a 36 percent jump in rail use, but statistics there aren't counted due to a temporary shutdown in 2013 (which inflates year-to-year growth numbers).
A total 10.8 billion trips were logged on all forms of transit (trolley, subway, bus) nationwide in 2014. San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System logged just over 95 million rides in its most recent fiscal year ended June 30; that number was already an all-time high but is expected to be surpassed again with the release of 2014–2015 numbers.
"Despite the steep decline in gas prices at the end of last year, public transit ridership increased," said American Public Transit Association president Michael Melaniphy in a release accompanying the data. "This shows that once people start riding public transit, they discover that there are additional benefits besides saving money. People are changing their travel behavior and want more travel options."
San Diegans are also taking the bus more often: despite a national decline in bus use as light rail gains popularity, San Diego recorded a 2.4 percent increase in ridership, ranking the region seventh nationally in demand growth.
Here's something you might be interested in.
You on the bus?
Mass-transit ridership up — locally and nationally
You on the bus?
Mass-transit ridership up — locally and nationally
Even though gas prices fell significantly during the past year, public use of mass transit hit a 58-year high in 2014, according to a March 9 report from the American Public Transit Association.
San Diego Trolley ridership was up 15.3 percent last year, accounting for the second-largest demand spike in the U.S. Oceanside saw a 36 percent jump in rail use, but statistics there aren't counted due to a temporary shutdown in 2013 (which inflates year-to-year growth numbers).
A total 10.8 billion trips were logged on all forms of transit (trolley, subway, bus) nationwide in 2014. San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System logged just over 95 million rides in its most recent fiscal year ended June 30; that number was already an all-time high but is expected to be surpassed again with the release of 2014–2015 numbers.
"Despite the steep decline in gas prices at the end of last year, public transit ridership increased," said American Public Transit Association president Michael Melaniphy in a release accompanying the data. "This shows that once people start riding public transit, they discover that there are additional benefits besides saving money. People are changing their travel behavior and want more travel options."
San Diegans are also taking the bus more often: despite a national decline in bus use as light rail gains popularity, San Diego recorded a 2.4 percent increase in ridership, ranking the region seventh nationally in demand growth.
Comments