Coming off of a record setting October, we see a dip in monthly ridership for November. This month, METRO is reporting 1,231,170 light rail boardings after having 1,380,055 the previous month. The November number isn’t too shabby if you compare it to the light rail boardings from the first 10 months of the year as […]

Can you say… Record setting? Check this out. The October 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and they are BIG. This month, METRO is reporting 1,380,055 light rail boardings which is 9.6% higher than October of 2011. The ASU football game on October 18th helped make the day the highest single ridership day […]

The September 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and they are pretty darn impressive. This month, METRO is reporting 1,245,064 light rail boardings which is just slightly higher than September of 2011. September 2012 ridership numbers look like this: Total Boardings for September: 1,245,064 vs 1,166,156 in August: Avg. Weekday Boardings: 49,577 vs […]

The August 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and they show that high temperatures don’t exactly keep all of us from leaving the house in August. While ASU students were away last month, we saw 982,776 boardings. This month, METRO is reporting 1,166,156 which is a 3.7% increase over August of 2011. August […]

Last week, METRO sent out their inaugural issue of Valley Metro’s News On The Move, a new bi-monthly e-newsletter with “timely highlights about the agency and local transit.” One interesting tidbit of information talked about the continued rise in light rail ridership around here. According to METRO: For light rail, there was a 5.9 percent […]

The July 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and they show that high temperatures and low student numbers are not a great combination for METRO. At 982,776 boardings, we see the lowest monthly numbers of the year while ASU is on summer break. July 2012 ridership numbers look like this: Total Boardings for […]

This past Thursday, I saw a tweet from Valley Metro RPTA that said: “Thx to psgrs, ridership up 5% in 2011-12 at 71 million boardings for bus & light rail.” 71 freakin’ million. That’s a lot of boardings. No, it isn’t individual riders, it is boardings. Yes, I know some people question how they come […]

The June 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and METRO failed to hit the magic 1 million boardings number for the first time this year by coming in at 995,109. June 2012 ridership numbers look like this: Total Boardings for June: 995,109 vs 1,118,598 in May: Avg. Weekday Boardings: 36,515 vs 40,111 in […]

The May 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and there were 1,118,598 boardings which is 148,116 less than April’s total of 1,266,714. On the plus side, May of 2011 had 1,018,684 boardings which means there was nearly a 10% increase from the year before. May 2012 ridership numbers look like this: Total Boardings […]

The April 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and there were 1,266,714 boardings with an impressive average weekday total of 47,400 boardings per day. The April total was about 4.8% higher than the same month ( April ) of 2011. April 2012 ridership numbers look like this: Total Boardings for April: 1,266,714 vs […]