Art of Transit: Tweetalicious: #Dodgers fans please consider @metrolosangeles to get to Dodgers Stadium this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/VWriAReJYt — Caltrans District 7 (@CaltransDist7) October 15, 2015 #TBT to aerial shots of [continue reading]
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Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Garcetti motion encourages affordable housing at Metro stations (Streetsblog L.A.) [continue reading]
August Metro ridership graphs UPDATE: Post corrected below in bold, 4:20 p.m. I need to double-check the Red/Purple Line ridership with Metro staff in the morning. Both the Red/Purple Line and the Expo Line had their best months yet, with 164,081 and 27,280 average weekday boardings, respectively — slightly higher than [continue reading]
The January ridership numbers for Metro are below. The basic breakdown: overall Metro ridership is slightly up compared to Jan. 2012 (1,445,601 avg. weekday boardings compared to 1,408,380), rail ridership is significantly up from Jan. 2012 (358,967 avg. weekday boardings compared to 335,108 boardings last year) and bus ridership is [continue reading]
The above chart is based on Metro’s 2012 Customer Satisfaction Survey and focuses on the issue of ridership by gender. The gist of it: more women than men overall ride Metro although there are notable exceptions: higher-income riders tend to be male, as are riders with a car available to [continue reading]
Below are the October ridership statistics for Metro. Numbers were up across the board when compared to the previous two Octobers. Here are the comparisons month-to-month numbers — it looks like record months for the Orange Line, Silver Line, Blue Line and the newly-opened Expo Line. Bus – Directly Operated [continue reading]
Looks like a trend we’ve seen in recent months continues: Metro Rail ridership continues to increase while systemwide bus ridership is flat. The Expo Line continues to increase with more than 18,000 average weekday boardings. That’s not a huge surprise with July being the first month that the full first [continue reading]
Below is the news release from the American Public Transportation Assn. — the Los Angeles area saw big gains in light rail and commuter rail ridership. That mirrors the gains in Metro’s rail ridership in April, although overall Metro ridership in April 2012 is down from April 2011 and April [continue reading]
Update, 1:45 p.m. — three Metro Rail lines had record numbers (Gold, Blue and Red/Purple) and more info about how rail ridership is calculated have been added to the below post. Metro has released its ridership statistics for July. Bottom line: systemwide ridership is up over a year ago, [continue reading]
