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Having entered the third year living with the COVID-19 pandemic, the transit industry has shifted its focus to providing services in communities based on changed mobility patterns. The American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Ridership Trends platform shows average weekly ridership nationwide for the first 13 weeks of 2022 was 107.4 million riders versus an average of 66.8 million riders in the first 13 weeks of 2021 - more than a 60 percent increase. While customers are returning to systems across the U.S., overall ridership remains reduced compared to pre-COVID-19 numbers.Reduced ridership was cited as an ongoing challenge by transit agency respondents to Mass Transit's "2022 Mobility Outlook," a survey of readers conducted in late 2021 and early 2022. However, a very close second was recruitment challenges. |