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2010 Subway Ridership Was The Second Highest Ever
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Garth Johnston
Published Feb 16, 2011
Modified Feb 16, 2011
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The Post got its paws on preliminary 2010 ridership statistics for the MTA and they are interesting. While overall ridership was down, all those fare hikes meant the MTA's bottom line was actually up. And the subway is as popular as ever. Total ridership on the rails hit 1.6 billion trips—an increase of 24 million trips from 2009. The only year when subway ridership was higher was 1950!
Further, it looks like the financially strapped authority's fare plan is doing what it is supposed to. It appears to have made $3.3 billion at the turnstile, "$2.3 million above the estimates of bean-counters."
Other interesting stats to be gleaned? Bus ridership dipped by 2.8 percent to about 700 million rides. And blizzageddon was as bad on our transit system as we all thought. December 2010 boasted 12,000 "inclement weather delays" compared to 808 in December 2009.
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