FIFA World Cup fans boost record ridership for public transit at Bay Area’s first match

What happened

According to Local News Matters’s source item, FIFA World Cup fans boost record ridership for public transit at Bay Area’s first match, More than 37,000 fans rode transit to and from Santa Clara for the first FIFA World Cup soccer match in the Bay Area on Saturday — the highest ridership ever for an event at the stadium there. A news release distributed Tuesday by local transit agencies said the benchmark for clearing crowds from light rail […] The post FIFA World Cup fans boost record ridership for public transit at Bay Area’s first match appeared first on Local News Matters .

Context

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Source

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