July ridership declined 9.9% compared to last year. This year we carried 326,207 passengers. In July 2015 we carried 362,048. Thru July we have carried 2,018,308 passengers, a decline of 4.4% over last year.
The NICTD Board met on Friday May 20 and approved a 2.5% increase in monthly fares and a $0.25 increase in one way ticket prices per year effective July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017.
Chesterton, IN. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) announced today that it received approval from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation to enter Project Development for its long anticipated project to double track the South Shore Line from Tennessee Street in Gary, Indiana, to the Michigan Blvd. in Michigan City, Indiana, a distance of approximately 25 miles.
You can find the full NICTD Strategic Business Plan here.
Last fall the NICTD Board of Trustees approved a pilot test of bikes on select weekend trains to debut in April 2016.