Transit ridership in November 2020 was 63.1 percent less than in 2019, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Transit Administration. That was down from October, which was 62.7 percent less than in 2019, and September, which was 62.0 percent less than in 2019. These numbers are preliminary as a few agencies may not have submitted their November ridership numbers in time for this report, but ridership has been stuck at around 37 percent of 2019 numbers since July.
While private businesses have scrambled to cut costs in response to the pandemic, transit agencies continue to operate at 80 percent of 2019 levels. Agencies, of course, received a $25 billion bailout from Congress in April. Since total transit fares were only about $16 billion in 2019, most of this bailout was predicated on the assumption that the state and local taxes that transit agencies rely on would significantly drop due to the pandemic and associated shutdowns.
In fact, state and local tax revenues in the first nine months of 2020 were just 1 percent less than in the same period in 2019. While we don’t yet have exact data for transit systems, it seems likely that transit agencies were awash with cash in 2020 due to the huge federal bailout. This allowed them to maintain service at 80 percent of 2019 levels despite losing more than half of their riders over the year.
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In December, of course, Congress gave transit agencies another $14 billion bailout for 2021 (on top of the $13 billion it would normally have given them). Transit agencies wanted $32 billion so they are likely to ask for $18 billion more in the next few weeks. Congress should take a close look at transit’s other revenues before acceding to this demand.
The Antiplanner has posted an enhanced version of the Federal Transit Administration’s spreadsheet. On both the ridership (“UPT” for unlinked passenger trips) and service (“VRM” for vehicle revenue miles) worksheets, the raw data are in cells A1 through IB2209. Annual totals for 2002 through 2020 are in columns IC through IU. Column IV shows the change in ridership in November 2020 compared with November 2019 and column IW shows the year-to-date change. Rows 2212 through 2232 show mode totals; rows 2240 through 3239 show agency totals; and columns 3240 through 3440 show totals for the nation’s 200 largest urban areas.
Evil, corrupt transit agencies continue to do evil, corrupt things. Sound Transit recently “admitted” the cost to bring toy trains to Ballard and West Seattle has jumped by 50%:
Sound Transit Reveals Big Jump in Cost Estimates for Ballard and West Seattle Link
They claim they are “absorbing” these extra costs (as if the money is being sacrificed from somewhere in the Sound Transit mafia hierarchy), and they repeatedly insist they are “delivering” the transit system they “promised” to the voters.
Anyone who knows anything about either Ballard or West Seattle knows the ridership numbers for a toy train to these locations would make some of the streetcars lambasted on this blog look good by comparison. The liberals living here aren’t giving up their Subaru’s, Audi Q5’s, and Prius’s to ride on a toy train filled up with gangbangers headed to White Center. And that was before the scamdemic.