Blue Line by the numbers: Ridership
LEFT: This is how many people ride the Blue Line buses per year. These numbers do not include special events or round trips to Tiger games. These numbers were provided by the U of M's Parking and Transportation Services. The counts are made through cameras inside the buses that were installed through a third-party company, not Groome Transportation of Tennessee.
RIGHT: This is how much money the University of Memphis pays Groome to run the Blue Line system. The funds that pay for this come from the mandatory and non-mandatory parking fees. With the exception of 2012, the university pays Groome about 20 percent of the parking revenue. Data collected from the University of Memphis Parking and Transportations Services to the Daily Helmsman via an open records request.
