South Shore Ridership Slowly Recovering
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowOfficials from the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District are hoping increased ridership as a result of COVID-19 vaccines will persist despite the onset of the Delta variant. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report the operators of the South Shore Line say ridership has ticked higher, but is still below pre-pandemic levels.
“We seem to be week over week trending up. And when I look at the reports it looks to me like we’re trending north of 30% for daily ridership,” South Shore President Michael Noland told the railroad’s Board of Trustees at its recent meeting.
The publication says transit systems, like South Shore, hope that commuters’ return will see an autumn boost.
Noland said talk among them is that “starting post-Labor Day is when employers are really going to start bringing people back to the office.” NICTD expects to see a more “normalization” of ridership in 2022.