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2008 was another record for transit use
For the third straight year, Metro Transit experienced record ridership in 2008.
The preliminary 2008 ridership numbers show an unprecedented 20 percent increase in King County Metro ridership since 2005. Estimates show 118 million trips were taken on Metro buses in 2008 – a seven percent increase over 2007.
Growth was partly fueled by service expansion made possible by "Transit Now" – a 10-year initiative funded by a one-tenth of one percent sales tax increase to expand the Metro system by up to 20 percent to meet growing demand.
Use of Metro commuter vans reached a record 3.1 million trips in 2008 including:
- 2,789,480 commute trips in Metro vanpools, a 21 percent increase over 2007;
- 377,798 commuter trips in Metro Vanshare vans, a 29 percent increase over 2007.
Metro park-and-ride lot usage was also up in 2008. More than 18,000 commuters took the bus from Metro park-and-ride lots each weekday – a 3.5 percent increase from 2007.
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