Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "ridership" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "ridership" over time.
In public transportation, ridership refers to the number of people using a transit service. It is often summed or otherwise aggregated over some period of time for a given service or set of services and used as a benchmark of success or usefulness. Common statistics include the number of people served by an entire transit system in a year and the number of people served each day by a single transit line. Read more on Wikipedia