APTA Quarterly Transit Ridership Reports
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Quarterly Ridership reports are a great resource in that they report current transit ridership and trends nationwide in a single document. The 2nd Quarter 2012 report was just released, and future reports can also be summarized here.
Here's some of the highlights from the most recent report (2nd Quarter, 2012). Among large transit cities (those with at least 350K daily trips), these cities reported the largest year-to-date percentage gains: NEWARK +5.4% BOSTON +5.37% SAN FRANCISCO +4.79% CHICAGO +4.49% Among large transit cities, these cities reported the largest drops: ATLANTA -4.14% PHILADELPHIA -0.75% Among medium-sized transit cities (those with between 125K and 349K daily trips) these cities reported the largest year-to-date percentage gains: SAINT LOUIS +9.05% PITTSBURGH +7.53% SALT LAKE CITY +6.78% MILWAUKEE -1.59% was the only mid-sized agency to report a ridership decline. There are so many small transit agencies, it's difficult to categorize them, but New Orleans (+13.17%), Indianapolis (+12.2%) and Kansas City (+8.93%) did well, while Tacoma (-16.5%) and Cincinnati (-8.96%) struggled. Here's a link to the report: http://www.apta.com/resources/statis...rship-APTA.pdf |
I'm shocked at how much it keeps increasing here on the trains. It's getting overwhelming at rush hour.
Ridership: 1996 412,000 2000 491,000 (+79,000 +19%) 2004 487,000 (-4,000 -1%) 2008 650,000 (+163,000 +33%) 2012 737,000 (+87,000 +13%) |
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The 2nd quarter report is interesting because there were some significant shifts in growth numbers from the 1st quarter. While most transit systems saw growth, SEPTA took a hit across the board for all modes with June showing the biggest drop year to year. What happened in Philly? Among the major heavy rail metro systems, the NY subway (+4.39%), Chicago L (+6.56%), and BART (+7.93%) all show solid growth for the first 6 months of the year. Meanwhile MARTA (-7.97% for the 2nd qtr) took a big hit. Miami Metrorail shows a small drop for the 2nd qtr (-0.35%), but the new airport station opened in July (IIRC), so the 3rd quarter report should show the early effects of providing airport access for what had been a single line Metro. |
I'm not even sure how septa counts ridership , they still use tokens , don't have any ticket machines and don't have any rail counters....so the decrease could be an error.
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What's the deal with Atlanta?
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That said, here in Michigan, DDOT looks to have had the worst drop-off over the previous year's second quarter. In Detroit's case, it has to do with DDOT being even worse off than MARTA in that it is literally a city department that has to be funded by the general fund of a city that can't possibly pay for its transit in a state that is sharing less and less revenue with its municipalities leading to massive service cuts. It almost makes MARTA look functional. |
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The APTA statistics report says Estimated Unlinked Transit Passenger Trips, so these are not exact numbers. But if the methodology is not changed, the numbers will show the growth or decline trends in ridership. So what happened at SEPTA that every transit mode showed a marked decline in ridership in the second quarter, while in the first quarter, all the modes were up in ridership except for a -5.5% drop for the trolley system? I don't recall reading about service cuts for SEPTA, so I have to wonder if there was an accounting error and SEPTA provided erroneous numbers to APTA. Pittsburgh, for example, with all the financial problems the transit system is having, had a 21.2% increase in light rail ridership in the 2nd quarter. For some systems, such as MARTA and some city bus systems, there have been service cuts, severe cuts in some cases, so the decline in ridership for those systems is not surprising. One thought stuck me reading the APTA report about the dominance in ridership numbers for the NYC subway system is that if we add up the unlinked transit trips of all the light rail and all the other heavy rail Metro systems across the US, the total is still less than the NYC subway system ridership. As more light rail systems & lines are built and expand along with some expansions of heavy rail transit (Silver Line for WMATA, BART, LA), eventually I think the totals of all the other rail transit systems will catch up to NYC. But NYC is not standing still, showing remarkable growth over the past 10-15 years and expanding the system. |
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Here are the August numbers for LA Bus and Rail... Blue line LRT goes over 92,000 daily boardings, Orange Line BRT passes 27,000, Expo close to 20,000, and overall numbers are way up
http://thesource.metro.net/2012/09/1...rship-numbers/ Metro August ridership numbers Posted on September 19, 2012 by Steve Hymon Comments: 2 Replies Categories: Inside Metro, Policy & Funding Tags: August, Blue Line, Metro, ridership Bookmark the permalink Here are the latest ridership numbers across the Metro system. The average weekday ridership for the Blue Line (92,006 boardings) and the new Expo Line (19,776) were the highest ever. The Orange Line had its second-best average to date (27,513) and the Green Line its third-best month ever (45,536). Below are the July numbers, which on the rail side are tabulated over the prior several months and then crunched to come up with the monthly numbers: Bus – Directly Operated AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 1,074,951 1,048,258 1,050,267 Average Saturday Boardings 723,663 728,213 725,903 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 552,120 547,722 538,147 Total Calendar Month Boardings 29,827,005 29,213,674 28,700,221 Directly operated bus ridership includes Orange and Silver Line ridership. Bus – Contract AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 45,836 41,327 42,870 Average Saturday Boardings 26,702 24,266 24,838 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 20,881 18,727 18,660 Total Calendar Month Boardings 1,244,551 1,122,490 1,135,790 Bus – Systemwide AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 1,120,787 1,089,585 1,093,137 Average Saturday Boardings 750,365 752,479 750,741 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 573,001 566,449 556,807 Total Calendar Month Boardings 31,071,556 30,336,164 29,836,011 Directly operated bus ridership includes Orange and Silver Line ridership. Orange Line AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 27,513 22,977 21,694 Average Saturday Boardings 17,776 14,187 13,880 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 13,601 11,420 10,666 Total Calendar Month Boardings 758,307 630,899 586,118 Silver Line AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 11,449 9,730 7,487 Average Saturday Boardings 4,441 3,825 2,811 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 3,168 2,517 1,919 Total Calendar Month Boardings 293,763 249,158 185,553 Rail Ridership Estimates Red/Purple Line AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 154,025 159,302 150,435 Average Saturday Boardings 90,817 100,728 101,190 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 79,423 80,785 82,843 Total Calendar Month Boardings 4,223,540 4,389,998 4,128,552 Blue Line AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 92,006 82,189 81,126 Average Saturday Boardings 65,686 57,645 52,018 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 54,087 47,924 49,006 Total Calendar Month Boardings 2,595,229 2,312,624 2,237,870 Blue Line estimates do not include Expo boardings. Expo Line AUG. 2012 Average Weekday Boardings 19,776 Average Saturday Boardings 12,569 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 10,722 Total Calendar Month Boardings 548,009 Green Line AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 45,536 43,373 41,172 Average Saturday Boardings 27,291 23,058 23,094 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 16,143 18,901 17,910 Total Calendar Month Boardings 1,221,076 1,165,424 1,087,718 Gold Line AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 42,125 39,598 35,247 Average Saturday Boardings 21,050 24,460 24,269 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 17,075 20,868 21,157 Total Calendar Month Boardings 1,121,376 1,092,062 978,287 Rail Systemwide Ridership Estimates AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 353,469 324,462 307,980 Average Saturday Boardings 217,413 205,890 200,571 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 177,450 168,478 170,915 Total Calendar Month Boardings 9,709,229 8,960,107 8,432,426 Includes Expo Line ridership. Systemwide Ridership Estimates AUG. 2012 AUG. 2011 AUG. 2010 Average Weekday Boardings 1,474,255 1,414,047 1,401,117 Average Saturday Boardings 967,778 958,370 951,312 Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 750,451 734,927 727,723 Total Calendar Month Boardings 40,780,785 39,296,271 38,268,437 |
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I'm not a big fan of the APTA numbers anymore because they aren't even retroactively consistent. Example:
Montreal: 2nd quarter, 2011: 2,337,500 2nd quarter, 2012: 1,354,500 (Year to date change: +2.04%) If there was a 2.04% increase year-over-year, 2012 should show daily ridership of about 2,385,185 in 2012, not 1,354,500. According to their numbers, there was a 42% decrease in daily ridership, not a 2% increase. |
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Not only does the State contribute zero dollars to the system, there is an oversight committee called MARTOC that DICTATES how they spend their own damn money. It is a never ending battle.... |
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How is that inherently flawed? This is how Denver's RTD funds its self. RTD collects a 1% sales tax from a district which includes all or parts of an 8 county greater metro area. |
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The recently defeated metro-wide sales tax for transportation was also set up to fail by the Republithug legislature that insisted it be during the July primary vs. the November general election. Most of us feel it would have passed if the vote had been during the general election, as it DID pass in the City and just barely was defeated in Fulton & DeKalb by razor thin margins. I honestly believe it would have passed handily in Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton & probably Gwinnett (pop. around 870,000). As much as I love this beautiful State, politically we truly are a blue island in a sea of very dark red, and the powers-that-be try their damnedest to keep it that way. :hell: I can only think of two other States that are as polarized as we are when it comes to urban vs. rural - IL and MO. |
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I don't know all the details of how Denver RTD is funded but I just browsed a couple of articles that details a great deal of collaboration between RTD and Colorado DOT (CDOT) that MARTA could only dream to have - examples like CDOT and RTD funding projects on US36, like CDOT and RTD working together to widened interstate and expand light-rail, etc. That kind of cooperation between in any level of Georgia state government (including GDOT) and MARTA is non-existent and even hostile. |
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