On the first day of pay service, the Red Line got 917 boardings. (A boarding is a one-way trip; don't know how they have been dealing with joyriders who never left their seat downtown though).
Ben Wear's blog
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Capital Metro tallied 917 MetroRail boardings today, the first day that the transit agency charged for rides on the new commuter rail line.
Agency officials have predicted 2,000 daily boardings.
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In a
thread on twitter with Roger Cauvin, I finally went out on a limb last week and predicted ridership would be 500-1000 boardings/day when things settled down (if Capital Metro allowed them to settle down before cancelling express bus service).