Virginia Railway Express is seeing a boon in riders, and that’s well before gasoline prices really started to soar.
Ridership on the commuter train service has increased 11 percent so far this fiscal year over last year, the service said in a report to be presented Friday.
What that looks like is more than 20,000 riders in a single day. The agency broke that record on Feb. 16 with 20,133.
But even the regular days are high. The average daily ridership for February was 18,569 and all of the top 10 ridership days have occurred since September.
That does mean packed trains, though, which has meant the agency is trying to turn away some riders.
Metro doesn’t have that problem, though, as its ridership has continued to falter.
