The APTA ridership numbers are now available for Q1 2020.
https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uplo...rship-APTA.pdf
Because of the virus, the update will focus less on the growth or loss year over year.
The numbers are as follow:
Bus: 69.7K average daily riders in the quarter.
LRT: 49.0K average daily riders in the quarter.
FrontRunner: 16.1K average daily riders in the quarter.
Total: 151.6K average daily riders in the quarter.
Prior to COVID, it looks like our ridership numbers were trending up for all modes:
January
Bus: 1,883.8 in 2020 vs 1,768.5 in 2019 -- 6.5% Increase
LRT: 1,377.4 in 2020 vs 1,383.0 in 2019 -- 0.004% Decrease
FrontRunner: 446.4 in 2020 vs 435.2 in 2019 -- 2.5% Increase
February
Bus: 1,779.7 in 2020 vs 1,638.3 in 2019 -- 8.6% Increase
LRT: 1,352.4 in 2020 vs 1,329.8 in 2019 -- 1.7% Increase
FrontRunner: 410.9 in 2020 vs 401.8 in 2019 -- 2.3% Increase
March
Bus: 1,320.7 in 2020 vs 1,751.8 in 2019 -- 24.6% Decrease
LRT: 924.6 in 2020 vs 1,417.9 in 2019 -- 34.8% Decrease
FrontRunner: 235.5 in 2020 vs 436.2 in 2019 -- 46% Decrease
It is safe to say that prior to COVID, ridership was definitely increasing on the various modes.
Because of how much things have changed, I do wonder how long it will take to return 2019 ridership levels.