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DASH ridership rebounds after route redesign; city pilots raised boarding platform, plans stop upgrades
Summary
After a 2023 route redesign and 2024 service expansion to seven days a week, DASH ridership has rebounded; the Rapid and Mobile GR reported ridership above pre-pandemic levels for March 2025, fleet upgrades including new 35-foot CNG buses, a pilot raised platform on Division and a bus-stop improvement program targeting about 40 sites.
Rapid and Mobile GR staff reported that changes to the DASH downtown circulator and a shift to seven-day service produced strong ridership gains and have led to a series of operational and stop-improvement initiatives.
Presenters said the DASH redesign (DASH 3) and the later expansion to seven-day service produced a sustained increase in ridership. Staff told the commission that, controlling for operating-day changes, average daily ridership rose and that in March 2025 DASH recorded more than 40,000 rides in the month — the highest monthly total since before the pandemic. Staff also reported weekday average daily boardings near 2,000 on DASH since the service…
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