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Subway renaissance? – Metro US

Subway renaissance?

Despite fare hikes and service cuts, the subway is seeing its most riders in decades, as the MTA released 2010 ridership numbers this week: 1.60 billion people rode the rails in 2010. That’s 24 million more trips than in 2009, and one of its highest-volume years since 1950. And more people are riding the subway during the weekend than in over forty years. Bus ridership, however, is down nearly 3 percent from 2009, to 696 million in 2010.