RTD's free-fare August promotion delivered on its promise, with new data showing ridership increased by 22.1% compared to July — and hit the highest level since the pandemic began.
The Regional Transportation District’sdelivered on its promise, with new data showing ridership increased by 22.1% compared to July — and hit the highest level since the pandemic began.
There are other ways to compare the August ridership totals, but all are imperfect because of the ways the pandemic has scrambled commute patterns and made RTD’s patterns less predictable. “With regard to zero-fare, how much of that was a causal factor?” Johnson said in an interview. “I’m looking forward to seeing September data so we can see how much of that increase was sustained into September.”