The total ridership for StarTran in the 2005-2006 year was 1,826,289 riders.
While the percentage changes were large, these two categories of riders remain a small share of total ridership.
The total ridership for 2011 was 3.95 million, the second highest, behind 2009.
After several years of growth, total ridership on the region's commuter railroads has fallen in the last few years.
These increases proved temporary: by 1977 total ridership had dropped beneath five million.
The total ridership, paid and unpaid, is 35,000 to 40,000 a day, the authority says.
The line is estimated to carry 240,000 daily passengers, bringing the metro's total daily ridership to 460,000.
The line accounts for about 13% of Metro Transit's total ridership.
In 1990, the subway carried more than one million riders per day for the first time, as total ridership reached 381 million.
Since 1989, total annual ridership on such routes has tripled, to 16 million.
