Ridership record for UTA set last week

Ridership record for UTA set last week

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SALT LAKE CITY — More people rode public transit in Utah during the last full week of September than ever before.

The Utah Transit Authority reported Wednesday that more people rode TRAX and FrontRunner trains during the week of Sept. 20 than at any time in the agency's history. Preliminary data showed 567,892 weekday boardings from Sunday, Sept. 20, through Saturday, Sept. 26 — an all-time record, UTA spokesman Remi Barron said.

The high volume of riders was attributed to several community events, including Salt Lake Comic Con, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus XTREME and the LDS women's conference. To accommodate the extra passengers, UTA added extra cars on TRAX trains and increased the frequency of its service, Barron said.

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