Photograph of the crowd waiting for a 1, 2 or 3 train at Times Square by ianqui on Flickr New data supports what everyone's been thinking: Ridership for the subway--and almost every other mass transit option--is up versus last year. So far, subway ridership is up almost 5% for the first three months of 2008 versus same period last year, and bus ridership is up 1.1%. Metro-North and LIRR both have seen ridership increases......