Total ridership for the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) was up 3.65 percent in November 2013 as compared with November 2012, according to numbers released by DART yesterday. A total of 349,845 passengers used the service in November, up from 337,521 the previous year. That’s a 5.62 increase since the fiscal year began in July. A total of 1.95 million passengers have used the service since July. DART began changing some of its bus routes and service in November of 2012. A DART spokesman said the agency is pleased with the growth in ridership for the first part of the year.