Nationwide transit ridership in January 2019 was 4.4 percent lower than the same month in 2018, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Transit Administration. Ridership fell for every major mode, including commuter rail (-0.6%), heavy rail (-4.9%), light rail (-0.5%), streetcars (-2.6%), and buses (-4.5%). January had the same number of work days in 2018 and 2019, so that wasn’t a factor in the decline for the month.
Year-over-year ridership (February through January) fell by 2.2 percent, and also fell for every major mode: -0.1% commuter rail, -2.7% heavy rail; -1.0% light rail; -1.3% streetcars, and -2.1% buses. Ridership did grow by 44 percent in January and 20 percent for the year for the minor mode that the FTA calls “hybrid rail,” meaning Diesel-powered light rail. It grew mainly because of the opening of a new line in Oakland.
January ridership fell in 33 of the nation’s 50 largest urban areas, and year-over-year ridership fell in 38 of them. Only seven of the top fifty urban areas enjoyed ridership growth both in January and in the February-January year: Houston, Indianapolis, Austin, Providence, Nashville, Richmond, and Raleigh.
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The largest ridership declines in January were in Louisville (-29.6%), Miami-Ft. Lauderdale (-18.0%), Detroit (-16.6%), Milwaukee (-16.5%), Cleveland (-15.6%), Pittsburgh (-13.7%), Orlando (-11.7%), Minneapolis-St. Paul (-11.4%), and Kansas City (-10.6%). The biggest ridership gains were in Virginia Beach (27.6%), Richmond (19.6%), Raleigh (14.8%), Tampa-St. Petersburg (9.7%), Houston (8.9%), and Austin (6.2%). Seattle, which in most months has bucked the national trend by gaining riders, lost 0.4 percent in January.
As usual, the Antiplanner has posted an enhanced spreadsheet with annual totals in columns HG through HW, comparisons of January 2018 with 2019 and February-January 2017-2018 with 2018-2019 in columns HX through IC, mode totals in rows 2142 through 2149, transit agency totals in rows 2152 through 3151, and totals of the nation’s 200 largest urban areas in rows 3153 through 3353. These numbers should be considered preliminary and some may be revised in future monthly postings.
Thank you, Antiplanner for believing in the first amendment and not blocking my comments for my conservative point of view like the Oregonian and the Tribune has. I tend to point out things like how the leftist government here in Oregon run by the socialist democrats is more interested in directing billions of hard earned tax dollars to things like light rail building projects, constructed by their campaign supporters, that in the end do none of the things they sold them to the public as doing. Rather than adding crucial surface street capacity to meet the currant load of our real transportation system, let alone future increased demands created by growth. It’s hard to imagine how spectacular our surface street transportation system would be today if pedophile socialist democrat Neil Goldschmidt had allowed the completion of the Mt. Hood freeway instead of stopping it in favor or the useless light rail to Gresham. There would be hardly if any more cars and trucks, but their would be far less pollution because they would whisk along to their destination reducing run time and avoiding their lest effective and most polluting engine operating condition idling. So the fact is that leftist, car and truck hating liberals in their ongoing campaign against the miracle molecule of life, carbon dioxide, without which no animals or plants could survive and at which the atmosphere is at nearly world history low PPM levels, have been counter productive and have made the Portland metro area far more polluting than they would have been. That heavens cars are so much more efficient and clean running than they where back in the ’60s or early 70’s when liberals took charge and started destroying everything they touch, including our transportation system of course, for Portland would have air like their communist counterparts have in Beijing China.
“Thank you, Antiplanner for believing in the first amendment and not blocking my comments for my conservative point of view like the Oregonian and the Tribune has.”
The First Amendment is a prohibition on government action and does not apply to private business or property
Speaking of being blocked, when people won’t identify themselves and use legitimate sites such as Randal’s to go on a hate-spewing rant and accuse others of being pedophiles-etc., I kinda think they ought to be blocked. And tackled.
Let him exercise his constitutional rights on his own site.
Neil Goldschmidt admitted to being a pedophile, so it is silly to criticize someone for accusing him of it. While it may not seem relevant to transportation issues, it was only after Goldschmidt admitted to having an affair with a 14-year-old girl when he was a member of the Portland city council that the local press began openly criticizing what they started calling the “light-rail mafia” that runs the region.
If lightrail replaced steel wheels/rail track with rubber tires, it’d be trolley light rail? Would it be more practical and economical to run?
Hi Frank; You are absolutely correct. The first amendment is a prohibition only on government and I did not write that they have no right to block comments in their newspaper that oppose their un-American leftist positions. They most certainly do. But it’s also true that the spirit of the first amendment that is to champion the free flow and expression of knowledge and ideas used to be celebrated by leftist liberals. Where as now if you try and express a fact or belief that is contrary to leftists beliefs or feelings they say they’re terribly offended by your hate speech and shut you or shout you down and probably call you a racist, homophobe, sexist or something horrible like that. Or they belittle you stating you have low IQ, are just a mean hater who is doesn’t care about anyone or don’t believe in their enlightened big government benevolent wealth transfer at gun point. Or say your clearly ignorant of the current world threatening ecological crises (Hoax) that they have created a scientific consensus about and for which they must seize total government control in order to save us from ourselves. All of that rather than let anyone express themselves freely and then express their own ideas they think carry more weight. It’s sad to see it happening here in the U.S., but suppressing the free flow of ideas, freedom of the press and book burning is one of the first things leftists/communists have to do to assume totalitarianism for the common good.
Great news. Hope it drops by 20% for February. No one needs more worthless transit boondoggles.
“Hope it drops by 20% for February.”
What makes you think that would have any effect? Once subsidies start, then seldom stop.
I know of a pilot intracity bus service that was projected by consultants to attract 125-220 passengers a day, growing to 180-320 in 5-10 years. After a 6-month pilot, ridership peaked a 2.2 passengers per bus trip and fell back to 1.7, by the time it ended. The project was declared a success, a brand new bus was purchased for $350 thousand and it still operates on a fixed schedule often with nobody but the driver on board.
In a land where federal funds are freely given out for a $350,000-bus that carries fewer passengers than a tandem bicycle, don’t expect year after year ridership declines to result in fewer transit boondoggles.
Henry Porter you are so right on about government subsidies. They are indeed the closest thing on earth to eternal. But I can certainly understand Metrosucks thought that if there is no need government wouldn’t blow billions and billions of hard earned tax dollars (Hard earned by the tax payers who were forced to pay the government at gun point) on something useless because that has to be what most logical folks would think. I think most folks are trusting and think government is benevolent and caring and so trust them out of hand when government officials say that light rail is beneficial to our transportation system when it is most certainly not at all. They have no idea that light rail has nothing to do with our transportation system and that transportation is simply the ruse. Or that it does none of the things government sells it to the public as doing and they find it hard to believe it’s real purpose it simply to direct billions of public monies to leftist supporters, so socialist/democrats will continue getting those huge campaign contributions. But un-fortunately that is exactly what light rail boondoggle are all about. PS- Try and get a light rail job without joining some union and see how that works out for you. Ha ha
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hat heavens cars are so much more efficient and clean running than they where back in the ’60s or early 70’s when liberals took charge and started destroying everything they touch, including our transportation system of course, for Portland would have air like their communist counterparts have in Beijing China.
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Since 40 years ago in this country we’ve doubled our VMTs. Our use of oil has only increased by 40%.
New combined cycle NG power plants have 80% less emissions than existing coal plants.
Places like Denver have seen their metro population nearly __TRIPLE__ during this time. Many years in the early 1970s the metro was violating much looser EPA standards for 2/3 – 80% of the year! That’s insane! And yet they have a few years recently where they have not had a single violation. And those EPA regulations on air quallity are much more stringent today.
That this is happening while americans are owning more cars and travelling more ( VMTs doubled ) should be a sign to folks that car and sprawl and a-ok. T
We need more personalized transportation, not mass transportation
“Hope it drops by 20% for February.”
What makes you think that would have any effect? Once subsidies start, then seldom stop.
You’re right, but one can hope. They spend so much time gloating about a 1% increase in ridership that Id rather see they explaining their planning failures.