Even with gas prices plummeting from a July high of $4 per gallon to the current price of $1.84 per gallon — the lowest gas prices have been since 2004 — bus ridership in the Duke City is still up from this time last year.

Gas prices were at $3.00 per gallon in the Albuquerque metro area this time last year.

“We’re kind of seeing in November what we had happen in October. It’s not going over a million, but it’s not dropping off the way gas prices are dropping off,” city Transit Director Greg Payne said.

ABQ Ride reported 908,988 passenger boardings in October, an 8 percent increase compared with October 2007, when gasoline was more expensive.

Colder weather means less people take the bus. But still, people who have gotten used to riding the bus have braved the cold weather to ride the bus, Payne told the Albuquerque Journal.