Q&A
Discussion on subway ridership statistics and projections for 2024
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about subway ridership statistics for 2024, comparing them to previous years. Franck Joseph from NYCT provides information on current ridership trends and projections.
- Ridership reached 1 billion subway riders in October, earlier than previous years
- Post-pandemic ridership is increasing, with some Fridays seeing over 4.4 million riders
- Comparison of weekday and weekend ridership to 2023 data
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Last year, annual total Subway ridership was approximately 1,100,000,000 with an average weekday ridership of around 3,600,000 and an average weekend ridership of around 4,200,000.
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What is your estimate for the total annual subway ridership for 2024?
Franck Joseph
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Thank you very much, chair Brooks Powers.
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So far already, in October, we already reached our 1 1,000,000,000th subway rider, this which is 2 weeks earlier than last year and 2 months earlier than 2022.
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So we estimate that we will surpass the number from last year.
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We're still collecting the data.
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It's ongoing, and we'll be able to report back out to you the, end of the year comes to pass.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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And what is this year's average weekday ridership and average weekend ridership?
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How does that compare to the ridership of 2023 from the data that you do know already?
Franck Joseph
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Yeah.
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Ridership is going up across the board.
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This October is the highest we've seen the highest ridership post pandemic.
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We also when you're looking at weekends, look, we'll take Fridays, for example.
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We have 2 Fridays in this month already where we've had over 4.4,400,000 riders, which is the most post pandemic as well.
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So people are coming.
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They're using the system, and we're maintaining that, you know, good service.
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Safety is is important for us as well to continue to attract our customers back onto the subway system.
