Metro Bus Ridership Stats (2002)

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Gerald
User ID: 0575574 Jul 27th, 2001 10:29 PM

Does anyone know where to find bus ridership figures so you can get an idea of which places have high ridership and would be a good place for rail maybe?

Chris Ledermuller
User ID: 1244314 Jul 28th, 2001 6:01 AM

The ridership statistics are at the MTA Library, 15th floor of the Taj Mahal. Open to the public Mondays and Thursdays.

The books are about 5 inches thick.

Bart Reed
User ID: 1606604 Oct 27th 11:16 PM

Every month we get complete MTA Metro Bus ridership statistics. If you are interested, they are in Excel format and I would be happy to foward them to you.

Just write: [e-mail]

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Dennis Lytton
User ID: 1174374 Jan 31st 11:20 AM

Bart or anybody else get a hold of these? The MTA website hasn't gotten its regular update of these statistics in a few months. It seems to me this happened last year around the first month of the year as well.

Bart Reed
User ID: 8854703 Jan 31st 1:29 PM

There will be NO November or December 2002 stats.

Seems there was a computer snafu.

Sorry.

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Dennis Lytton
User ID: 1174374 Jan 31st 2:02 PM

There will be NO November or December 2002 stats.[/qupte]

No stats for Nov. or Dec. 2002 ever? Never, ever?

Interesting. What a mighty computer snafu.

Bart Reed
User ID: 8854703 Jan 31st 2:47 PM

You will get over it.

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Or Law School...



Andrew S
User ID: 6410033 Jan 31st 5:32 PM

Messes up my spreadsheet too. I'll have to take Bart's kind advice.

Andrew S
User ID: 6410033 Jan 31st 7:29 PM

Sure would be interesting to know what kind of snafu would cause all that data to be lost! Does anyone have the inside scoop? hard disk failure and no backups perhaps?

Roberto
User ID: 9161143 Jan 31st 8:10 PM

... perhaps the student interns counting passengers got the holidays off?

Bart Reed
User ID: 8854703 Feb 1st 12:28 AM

I know the answer, but I don't remember what was said that well. Roger Rudick was also with me when Ed explained that the ride data from the TVM's got corrupted, but all other financial data was OK. At that point my eyes glazed over, so yes, Ed Scannel is more then willing to explain, but someone has to want to hear the answer.

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Dennis Lytton
User ID: 2504764 Feb 27th 12:33 AM

I sure hope that we get some stats soon. With gas prices so high in January and even more so this past February, ridership may have set new record highs.

Anybody have information on the delinquent ridership stats?

Roberto
User ID: 9161143 Feb 27th 3:51 AM

Dennis is absolutely right ... I personally know alot of people that normally drive to work, but are currently taking Metro Rail because of the gas prices.

The Red and Blue Lines in particular seem very crowded these days ... would love to see the stats. I even saw a jam-packed Green Line train for the first time in my life last week ... I almost couldn't believe it when it pulled into the station, seeing all those people crammed in the aisles.

Andrew S
User ID: 6410033 Feb 27th 10:17 AM

I groan a little when I see an overcrowded Green Line train, since sometimes it means that there was a long interval between trains. {people waiting, freeway noise, OK broken record}

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Dennis Lytton
User ID: 9558813 Apr 2nd [2003] 4:21 PM

Hey Bart or one of you guys in the know -- What gives? Why haven't ridership stats been forthcoming for so long now?

Dennis Lytton
User ID: 7976933 Aug 12th 2:26 AM

June 2003 Weekday average daily boardings

Red Line - 98,989

Blue Line - 66,744

Green Line - 31,976

Dennis Lytton
User ID: 7976933 Aug 12th 2:36 AM

As many of your know, there was the development a few months ago of Red Line stats being edged downward to problems with MTA's statistical modeling for "sample" method of collecting ridership data.

MTA has always had to use statistical "sampling" methods to get its ridership data as the rail system is barrier-free and bus drivers are too busy to count passengers.

Once we get the smart card, I wonder if we can finaly get "real" ridership data? Presumedly if everyone has to validate a smart card when they enter a bus or train this may be possible. However, if you could still simply pay cash to get on a bus or just "flash" a monthly pass to the driver this may not be possible.

Same is true for the rail lines. If you could just walk onto a train without "validating" your monthly pass (smart card), then your boarding would not be "recorded" anywhere.

While it might be nice to have a smart card system that recorded all boardings, rail or bus, to get good stats, it is probably more important to have an easy-to-use seemless system.

Dane
User ID: 2037954 Oct 6th 11:41 PM

Gold Line stats for August 2003 only (obviously):

Average Weekday Boardings:
18,364

Average Saturday Boardings:
24,528

Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings:
21,652

Total Calendar Month Boardings:
616,542

Total Fiscal Year-to-Date Boardings:
616,542

Robert
User ID: 2037954 Oct 25th 10:56 PM

Sept. 2003 Stats:

www.metro.net/news_info/ridership/rdrshpavg.htm

This link will not last too long. Too much formatted data from link to post here.

Bob

PaulC
User ID: 8228423 Nov 18th 8:33 PM

Today I caught the 181 to the 267 home and the ridership seem the same as it was pre-strike. So maybe there wont be a fall in ridership or not as much.

Paul

Ken Alpern
User ID: 9272753 Nov 18th 11:47 PM

Although I imagine there will be a fall in the October ridership stats...right?

PaulC
User ID: 8228423 Nov 19th 12:14 AM

Oh ya, thats true.

Paul

Bart Reed
User ID: 1606604 Aug 18th [2004] 8:25 AM

Ridership Link. Bus, Rail. See all the MTA Ridership from 1990 through the present:

www.onstarld.com/bob/MTAridership.htm

Updated every month around the 20th.

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Robert
User ID: 9092003 Apr 12th [2005] 9:51 PM

I finally recovered enough to upload the March-05 ridership. Sorry for the delay since Dec-04 all.

We are working on getting the Metrolink ridership stats up also - should be very soon.

Bob