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It’s been a little more than two months since San Diego’s Metropolitan Transportation System (MTS) opened the 5.8-mile, four-station Green Line extension, but the agency already is posting ridership records.

In July, the trolley system set high-water marks for monthly, daily, weekday and Saturday ridership, and posted some of the highest-ever ridership days in its 25-year history.

MTS attributes the records to several special events near the Qualcomm Stadium, PETCO Park and convention center stations.

High ridership continued in August, especially at the end of the month when the fall semester began at San Diego State University, where MTS built one of the new trolley stations. Within a week of students’ return, more than 3,000 semester trolley and bus passes were sold. In fall 2004, the agency sold 790 semester passes.