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N.Y. Subway Ridership at Record Levels
MTA New York City Transit (NYC Transit) announced in early December that a record number of customers, 6.2 million, entered the New York subway system on Oct. 29—50,000 more than the previous one-day record, set Oct. 30, 2014.
Both record-setting days occurred on the last Thursday in October, which according to NYC Transit is traditionally one of the system’s busiest days with school visitors and heavy tourist presence in the city. The month’s figures report five days when ridership exceeded the prior year’s record and 15 weekdays with ridership above 6 million.
“The relentless growth in subway ridership shows how this century-old network is critical to New York’s future,” said Thomas F. Prendergast, chairman and chief executive officer, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “Our challenge is to maintain and improve the subways even as growing ridership puts more demands on the system. We are doing it thanks to the MTA Capital Program, which will allow us to bring meaningful improvements to our customers, such as real-time arrival information on the lettered subway lines, cleaner and brighter stations with new technology like Help Points, modern signal systems and almost 1,000 new subway cars.”
Daily subway ridership records have been kept since 1985. Agency officials said the new record is the highest since the late 1940s.
Average weekday subway ridership during October, just below 6 million, was the highest of any month in more than 45 years. Approximately 80,000 more customers rode the subway on an average October 2015 weekday than just a year earlier—enough to fill more than 50 fully loaded subway trains.
Ridership surged on the weekends as well, with the average weekend ridership higher than any October in more than 45 years. On Saturday, Oct. 31, the day of the Village Halloween Parade and a Mets World Series game, 3.7 million customers rode the subway, making it the fifth busiest Saturday on recent record.
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