NYC Subway Ridership Grows to Highest Point in 65 Years

[marmar]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City subway ridership has reached its highest level in more than 65 years.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says more than 1.7 billion people rode the subway last year. That's a 2.6 percent increase from 2013.

Figures released Monday show that 5.6 million people rode the system on weekdays and 6 million took it on an average weekend.

The MTA says at its busiest, it carried more than 6 million customers on 29 weekdays in the last four months of 2014. That's a level it hasn't seen since the post-World War II era. ...............(more)

http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/11927187/nyc-subway-ridership-grows-to-highest-point-in-65-years

[shenmue]

1. Choo choo!

I loves me some trains and buses! (Queens native myself.)

[daleanime]

2. If you build it.....

people will use it.

[JayhawkSD]

3. "In 65 years?" Meaningless.

The number of riders as a percentage of population could have dropped sunstantially in 65 years and still increased overall in 65 years just due to population and employment growth.

Why does the media keep giving us these meaningless numbers?

[marmar]

4. Not meaningless. Far fewer people had cars 65 years ago.