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In 2015, Metro Transit saw its highest yearly ridership ever, with a total of 85.8 million trips, 62.1 million (72%) of which were on buses. The remaining 23.7 million (28%) of passengers traveled on the region's rail lines, including the then new Green Line. [9]
The line accounts for about 13% of Metro Transit's total ridership. Less than two years after opening, the line had already exceeded its 2020 weekday ridership goal of 24,800. The line carried 10.6 million riders in 2015. In 2018 weekday ridership on the Blue Line was 32,921.
Transit type: Light rail (LRT) Bus rapid transit (BRT) Number of lines: 2 LRT lines 5 BRT lines: Line number Blue Line Green Line Orange Line Red Line A Line C Line D Line Number of stations: 121: Daily ridership: 46,500 (light rail, weekdays, Q4 2023) Annual ridership: 14,755,900 (light rail, 2023) Website: metrotransit.org /metro: Operation
Metro Transit (Metropolitan Council) Locale: Minnesota (Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Anoka County and Sherburne County) First service: November 16, 2009 () Current operator(s) BNSF Railway (locomotives) Metropolitan Council (train staff) Daily ridership: 500 (weekdays, Q4 2023) Annual ridership: 142,200 (2023) Website: metrotransit.org/northstar
Metro Transit is set to adjust the schedule and trip times for Routes 353 and 363 “to better match ridership and actual conditions.” Find out what's happening in Woodbury with free, real-time ...
In 2017, the latest year data was available, Americans took 10.1 billion — that’s billion, with a “b” — trips on public transit systems. And since 1996, ridership has increased 31 ...
Ridership in 2019 was 242,372 rides for a subsidy of $9.97 per passenger. The other two bus rapid transit lines in the Metro system, the A Line and the C Line, had subsidies of $3.85 per passenger and light rail service cost $1.96 per passenger. Suburban local and commuter express bus subsidy for MVTA, which is the territory the Red Line ...
The council set the goal of doubling transit ridership by 2030 in their 2030 Transportation Policy Plan and identified implementing arterial bus rapid transit as a method of increasing ridership. Metro Transit began study of 11 corridors for their potential for arterial bus rapid transit in 2011–2012. [47]
Ridership increased on weekdays by 30%, Saturdays by 25%, and Sundays by 40%, five months after opening. Stations Station characteristics A typical C Line station at 7th St & 3rd Ave. Stations on Metro Transit's bus rapid transit service are unique and have enhanced features to differentiate them from local bus stops.
By May 2022, weekday ridership on the Orange Line passed 1,000 rides a day, double the ridership served by the bus route it replaced, Route 535. Weekend service, which did not exist on Route 535, was serving 300-400 rides a day. Features Articulated bus in METRO livery used on the Orange Line