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Urban Transit Systems are Adding Riders (Mostly)

Some American cities are bucking a years-long trend of declining transit ridership — but much depends on whether the system is good or bad (as we certainly know here in NY!).

By Aaron Short

1:32 PM EDT on October 15, 2019

Urban Transit Systems are Adding Riders (Mostly)

Aaron Short

Aaron Short has been a New York City journalist for more than 20 years. He's also co-author of the seminal oral history of Donald Trump, "The Method to the Madness" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)

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