The Long Beach Press Telegram reports that weekday ridership on Metro's rail lines increased 12 percent in September 2012 over the previous year for an average weekday ridership of 357,096 people: The Blue Line is up 10 percent with 92,120 riders, the Green Line is up 3.4 percent with 46,393 riders, Gold Line is up 10.6 percent with 41,987 riders, the Red and Purple subway lines are up 2 percent with 155,940 weekday boardings, the Orange Line is up 18 percent with 31,787 riders, and Expo, which reported 11,347 riders when it opened in May surpassed 20,000 in September.

Ridership on Metro's bus system held steady, with an increase of less than 1 percent, averaging more than 1.18 million passengers on an average weekday in September.

Read it in the Long Beach Press Telegram.