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8/17/2022
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System yesterday reported its trolley ridership rose 52% in fiscal-year 2022 compared with ridership levels a year ago.
Between July 2021 and June 2022, trolley ridership totaled 29.7 million trips compared with 19.5 million trips in the previous fiscal year, MTS officials said in a press release. The transit agency has recorded more than 5 million trips a month since March 2022 on both trolley and bus service — about 75% of pre-pandemic ridership levels.
The largest increase in trolley ridership was registered on the University of California-San Diego Blue Line, which climbed 66% from 10.4 million rides in FY21 to 17.4 million in FY22. MTS operates three trolley lines in 10 cities and unincorporated areas of San Diego.
In November 2021, the agency opened an 11-mile extension to the university campus, pushing the largest ridership increase in a single year in the transit agency’s history, MTS officials said. Since May this year, MTS has offered free rides to people aged 18 years or younger under the Youth Opportunity Pass Pilot program, created in partnership with the North County Transit District and San Diego Association of Governments.