This summer, as ridership increases, the conflict between cellphone shouters and those who would quiet them appears to be escalating.

By June 1996, the two lines had a daily ridership increase of 2,300, a 19% increase.

Streetcar and bus lines carry 94 million people, ridership increases lead to more than 146 million trips in 1944.

A further ridership increase is expected later in 2011 with the start of direct trains from Seoul Subway Line 9.

This gave a ridership increase of 11.2% to 1.6 million.

Price were reduced, and 1967 showed a 10% ridership increase.

However, there has been a ridership increase from approximately 25,000 people in 2000 and 66,518 people in 2008.

(Opponents counter that service has not nearly kept pace with ridership increases, leading to a lot less of many important things, like space and seats.)

That compares with a system-wide ridership increase of 2.9 percent.

VRE service is significantly more limited, but nevertheless saw over a year of continuous ridership increase from 2007 into 2008.