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It is the second busiest commuter railroad in North America in terms of annual ridership, behind the Long Island Rail Road and ahead of NJ Transit (both of which also serve New York City). [1] As of 2018 [update] , Metro-North's budgetary burden for expenditures was $1.3 billion, which it supports through the collection of taxes and fees. [ 10 ]
For other similarly named entities, see Metropolitan Transit Authority and MTA (disambiguation). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) provides local and express bus, subway, and commuter rail service in Greater New York, and operates multiple toll bridges and tunnels in New York City. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA ...
By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. [18] The subway carried 2,027,286,000 unlinked, non-unique riders in 2023.
Metro-North carried 84.66 million passengers in 2014, a 1.5% increase over the prior year and the highest ridership in rail system’s history, according to figures released by the Metropolitan ...
Metro-North Breaks Ridership Record - Chappaqua-Mount Kisco, NY - Metro-North reached an all-time high and the LIRR hit a high it hasn't seen since 1949, MTA officials said.
In April 1986, the New York City Transit Authority began to study the possibility of eliminating sections of 11 subway lines because of low ridership. The segments are primarily located in low-income neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, with a total of 79 stations, and 45 miles of track, for a total of 6.5 percent of the system.
Metro-North's record week, for the week of May 6, is the first time since the pandemic the railroad has averaged over 200,000 riders for a week, surpassing that total six of the last seven weekdays.
In April 2023, the MTA detailed the effects of the opening of the station on subway ridership. Many fewer people traveled on the subway between the East Side and Penn Station: 31 percent fewer weekday trips between Grand Central and Penn Station, a 34 percent decline on the E train between the East 53rd Street corridor and Penn Station, and ...