WAMU: Metro Just Had Its Lowest Ridership Numbers In 20 Years. What’s Going On?
Metrorail ridership is at a nearly 20-year low, according to the latest Metro ridership report.
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Washington Post: ‘They risk squandering this culture of transit riding’: Metro ridership hits a low…
Metro ridership has hit another low, sinking to fewer than 600,000 average weekday trips for the first time since 2000, before the original system was completed, according to the agency’s latest performance report.
WTOP: Metro ridership may be headed for nearly 2-decade low
Many Metro trains are much less crowded, with ridership now around the lowest levels in nearly two decades.
Washington Post: When it comes to reversing the ridership slide, Metro’s leaders don’t have a plan
Metro’s ridership keeps falling, and the system’s leaders are at a loss for how to fix it. Once comfortably the nation’s second-busiest subway, Metro has lost 125,000 average daily trips over the past decade, plunging it into a quarterly…