Greenway Public Transportation

Bus at Greenway Public Transportation

Greenway Public Transportation carried 59,979 bus boardings in FY2024 at $28.75 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Conover, NC
FY2024 boardings
60K
-1.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$28.75
+6.7% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$27.97
+6.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.7%
-4.4% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
298.6K
average trip 4.98 miles
Operating cost
$1.72M
Vehicles in service
8
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.09
14.7K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every bus operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2024

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Directly operated 59,979 298,632 14,654 $1,724,594 $28.75 $27.97 2.7% 8

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Greenway Public Transportation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 59,979 298,632 268,562 14,654 $1,724,594 $47,005 $28.75 $27.97 2.7%
2023 60,846 307,647 256,641 14,350 $1,640,023 $46,767 $26.95 $26.19 2.9%
2022 66,990 380,302 336,686 19,436 $1,683,166 $12,487 $25.13 $24.94 0.7%
2021 89,385 523,166 349,854 21,480 $1,810,183 $2 $20.25 $20.25 0%
2020 128,376 696,466 422,692 25,641 $1,585,578 $63,142 $12.35 $11.86 4%
2019 140,553 778,637 392,834 23,173 $1,631,576 $67,320 $11.61 $11.13 4.1%
2018 134,377 798,753 284,217 15,781 $1,276,511 $71,479 $9.50 $8.97 5.6%
2017 143,220 725,591 279,605 15,598 $1,586,291 $74,131 $11.08 $10.56 4.7%
2016 126,053 853,200 264,528 14,616 $1,428,700 $79,088 $11.33 $10.71 5.5%
2015 124,344 769,219 251,424 13,936 $1,229,563 $85,731 $9.89 $9.20 7%