Caltrain Ridership Drops After 72 Straight Months of Increases

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Caltrain cars at San Jose's Diridon Station in 2016. Photo by Dan Brekke/KQED

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix
Ridership on Caltrain is slowing down.

For more than six years, the average number of people riding trains on weekdays between San Francisco and Santa Clara County increased each month compared to the month the previous year.

The agency credited the boom in Silicon Valley for a series of ridership records.

But, at the end of last summer, the trend changed.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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