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County transit reports December ridership drop, cites holiday service reductions
Summary
Richland County transit staff reported December ridership fell about 15% year over year, attributing the decline to holiday service reductions, and provided routine financial and DBE participation updates.
Transit staff reported a year-over-year decline in December ridership and presented routine financial and DBE participation updates to the committee.
Staff member Jackie reported December ridership totaled 110,769 riders compared with 130,500 in the previous December, a decrease the presentation recorded as about 15.12%. Jackie said the reduction is attributable largely to the Christmas holiday, when service is reduced on Christmas Eve and suspended on Christmas Day. The report included average daily ridership comparisons for 2023 and 2024 and noted USC rider counts; the transcript records USC ridership for the month at 14,809 and a month-to-month decrease noted in the presentation.
The transit report also included the agency's financial report and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation update; the presenter concluded the transit portion of the meeting after offering to take questions from committee members.
Provenance
topicintro: "Yes. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. So I will start my report, on the second page, which is item A, and that is the ridership comparison. So for the month of Dec., we had a total of 110769 riders..." (transcript excerpt)
topicfinish: "The next page is the USC ridership. So for the month of Dec. the USC riders were 14809, which is a decrease of 17018 passengers compared to Nov." (transcript excerpt)
