Alert and thoughtful MinusCar reader Tim pointed me to this - "Record number of riders uses Sioux Falls Transit" - article from yesterday's Local Daily. I hope the writers had at least a nice long conversation over the grammatical correctness of the headline.
Seems local transit ridership was up 7.65% compared to 2007. Over the lifetime of The MinusCar Project ridership has increased 26.56%. That's strange, I did not realize my share of rides made that big of difference.
"Ridership" reached 1,000,000 presumably for the first time ever. They awarded the 1,000,000th rider with free rides for a year and maybe a cake. The 1,000,000th rider's name?
Verlyn Beerman. I'm not making this up.
It's grammatically correct. The subject is "number", which is singular, and the singular verb is "uses". "Riders" is the object of a prepositional phrase and thus should have no bearing on the verb.
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