TriMet’s light rail scored another success in July, with ridership up across the board and in some cases by double digits, but the number of passenger trips on buses slipped slightly.
The big standout in the monthly figures released Tuesday was ridership on the MAX Green Line carrying passengers between downtown Portland and Clackamas Town Center. It recorded a jump of nearly 16 percent on weekdays last month compared with July 2010, or nearly 24,000 trips.
WES, which runs from Beaverton to Wilsonville, saw a jump of nearly 17 percent compared with July 2010, more than 1,600 trips.
The two lines opened in 2009.
Overall, weekday trips on MAX’s five lines rose nearly 6 percent in July, nearly 138,000 trips. That compares with a slight slip in bus ridership. In July, weekday passenger trips on buses fell 0.2 percent to nearly 184,000 trips. Weekend bus ridership fell a tad as well, by 0.3 percent to 184,000 trips.