If you thought DART's buses, trains and HOV lanes were crowded last month, you were right.

With 10.3 million total trips on those modes, June 2008 was the transit agency's biggest month ever, topping last month's record of 10.28 million trips.

Both DART Rail (69,861 trips) and the Trinity Railway Express (11,105 trips) posted their highest-ever average weekday ridership totals. DART Rail was up 14.2% over June 2007 and the TRE was up 19.8% over the same period. Commuters continue sharing the ride in the HOV lanes. There were more than 4.5 million trips made in the expanded HOV-lane system. That number, when combined with ridership on other DART services, yielded a 20.1% increase in ridership over June 2007.

With the high price of gas more and more people are looking for ways to cut expenses, we are blessed with a great public transit system, and many people are using it more and more. For information on fares and routes click here.