For the month of October 2010, light rail ridership numbers were slightly lower that last month. While September was the second highest month on record, the fact that some large events happened last month might be the reason for the slight dip. Totals look like this: Total Boardings for October: 1,165,737 vs 1,179,952 in September […]
METRO Playing With A Full House
Early on, there were some pretty vocal naysayers that said the Phoenix light rail boondoggle was too big of a gamble. Today, as the METRO light rail ridership numbers continue to exceed expectations, METRO seems to be a pretty sure bet. From the looks of the recent September light rail boardings, they we not far […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – September 2010
As expected, the September of 2010 light rail ridership numbers were over the million mark for the second consecutive month. In fact, September was the second highest month on record. Each category posted record or near record numbers Totals look like this: Total Boardings for September: 1,179,952 vs 1,027,760 in August Avg. Weekday Boardings: 44,577 […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – August 2010
As expected, the August of 2010 light rail ridership numbers were over the million boardings mark after 3 consecutive months of missing that particular milestone. For August of 2010 the totals look like this: Total Boardings for August: 1,027,760 vs 858,404 in July Avg. Weekday Boardings: 38,137 vs 29,635 in July Avg Saturday Boardings: 26,460 […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – July 2010
As expected, the July of 2010 light rail ridership numbers took a bit of a dive in July as the temperatures heated up. Like many months, there are some interesting insights when looking at these totals. While the average daily boardings were down, the average Sunday / holiday number was the highest yet for the […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – June 2010
The June 2010 ridership numbers fell slightly below the “magic” one million mark for the second month in a row but continued to improve year over year. According to the METRO Twitter page, “METRO served 12.1M riders this past fiscal year (July ’09-June ’10) & saw a 15% increase in June ’10 from June ‘09.” […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – May 2010
Last month’s record light rail ridership numbers were pretty impressive in many ways. Highest month, highest day etc etc. The year over year numbers look strong and the Disneyland effect has never really been an issue. Strong demand when the weather was GREAT and the Diamondbacks began their season along with First Friday crowds that […]
The Disneyland Effect
The Disneyland effect is a term that has come up several times since light rail began running in the Phoenix area. The first few months of light rail ridership in 2009 was ‘higher than expected” and many people attributed that to the “Disneyland effect.” Light rail was something new, something to try out once or […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – April 2010
METRO ridership reaches its high in April PHOENIX — METRO light rail has achieved record ridership in April with the most riders in one month, in one day and the highest average weekday ridership since the system’s opening in December 2008. METRO served 1,208,924 total riders in April 2010, resulting in an average weekday ridership […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – March 2010
In March, METRO had highest light rail ridership since opening with 1,161,733 boardings with the first week averaging 40,000+ EACH day. One interesting thing to note is the fact that ridership from Jan-Mar 2010 was over 10% greater than Jan-Mar of 09. In fact, March of 2010 was 19% higher than March of 2009. Back […]