swni t1_jaaq9q0 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:57 AM

Reply to comment by LennyKravitzScarf in MBTA won’t roll out $935M automated fare payment system in 2024 by weallgettheemails2

That doesn't seem right, as of 2014 it is close to a million subway rides per weekday. 2019 fares were 671.4m. Last year fares were only $200m though obviously that was mostly a temporary decline. https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/financials/budgets/fy19-itemized-budget.pdf

LennyKravitzScarf t1_jaatk5h wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:21 AM

I’m sure I messed up some math somewhere, but I pulled out just subway and bus rides form the January 2019 data from the mbta website. The 671m figure includes commuter rail and ferry.

swni t1_jaav6rz wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:33 AM

For Jan 2019 I see 658k subway rides per weekday, way higher than 1.7m per month. Bus was 370k / weekday. https://mbtabackontrack.com/performance/#/detail/ridership/2019-01-01/Subway///all