CapeFlyer Sees Year-Over-Year Opening Weekend Ridership Increase
The CapeFlyer train service, offering summertime transit between Boston and Cape Cod, had a strong opening weekend, carting more than 1,000 passengers from Friday through Memorial Day, the Boston Herald reports.
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According to Cahir, that’s an increase of 28 percent with 200 more riders compared to last year’s opening-weekend ridership of 808.
Revenue figures were not immediately available, the Herald reports. Though there was an uptick in ridership and an increase in prices for rides to and from Boston to the Cape this year, the new season also brought discounts for seniors and people with disabilities. So it will be interesting to see how the revenues compare when the weekend’s figures are released, which should happen later this week.
The CapeFlyer service ran as a pilot program last year before being made permanent in the fall following what was widely perceived as a successful run that saw more than 16,500 riders.
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