The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announces that the number of passengers in the city’s public transportation system reached, this past Thursday, the highest total in a single day since the start of the pandemic.
With nearly 1.9 million trips, city transit officials reported that more trips were logged on Thursday in the subway.
Daily bus trips exceed one million as passengers continue to return to public transportation. Approximately one million 100,000 additional daily trips were recorded on the buses. Throughout the system, it is estimated that almost 3 million trips are made per day.
Before the pandemic, the average number of subway riders on a weekday exceeded 5 million. That number dropped by more than 90% to a low of nearly 300,000 daily trips in April of last year.
The increase in passenger numbers follows news that the federal stimulus package includes some $ 6 billion in funding for the MTA. That money will help transit workers continue to provide quality service as riders begin using public transportation again.
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