Officials at the rail service, responding to a Marin County Civil Grand Jury report, said the agency faces bleak prospects if voters let its biggest funding source expire.
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FrontRunner commuter rail hit the hardest, followed by Trax.
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Sign on a UTA bus in downtown Salt Lake City shows that masks are required on Sept. 24, 2020. Final data shows UTA lost half of its ridership during 2020 because of the pandemic.
| Jan. 19, 2021, 9:29 p.m.
Year-end statistics show that the Utah Transit Authority lost half of its ridership during 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ridership on buses was down by 40%; it was down on TRAX light rail by 52%; by 36% on the S-Line streetcar; and by 61% on the FrontRunner commuter train system.
“If you’re doing the math, ridership is down 47% [systemwide] in 2020 versus 2019,” Eddy Cummins, UTA chief operations officer, told the board last week.