"But it is one of the ways to get people to use the system more, and I'm for anything that increases ridership."

"What we're trying to do is to establish a policy that will increase ridership," he said.

To break even, he said, the monorail would need to increase ridership by about 50 percent.

One of his main goals, he said, is to increase ridership by, for example, attracting more weekend travelers.

A free connection, however, while costing $89 million a year, would increase ridership by 3.2 percent.

One would be in the agency's advertising budget, which is intended to increase ridership.

Discounts were then introduced to increase ridership, but this did not bring much more traffic.

Officials hope the new section will increase ridership on the system from 550,000 passengers a day to 850,000.

The new line will increase annual ridership by about five million travellers.

It would increase ridership and get more cars off I-95 which we thought was the point of running trains in the first place.