New York – More people rode the New York City subway than ever in September, with the number of trips exceeding a record-breaking 6 million on five separate days over the month, transit officials said on Wednesday.
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There were 6,106,694 trips on the subway on Sept. 23, the highest number since daily figures were first recorded in 1985, and likely the highest since the late 1940s, when the system had more elevated lines and far fewer people owned cars.
Four other days in September also exceeded 6 million trips, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency said.
The previous record was set on Oct. 24, 2013, when there were 5,987,595 rides.
Since the first underground subway trip in 1904, the city’s subway system has grown into one of the largest in the world, with 468 stations across more than 20 lines.
Ridership dropped in the 1970s and 1980s when the city’s crime rate was much higher and the subway’s graffiti-covered cars were seen as unsafe.
In the early 1990s, barely 3.7 million trips were taken on the system on a weekday, according to transit officials. Since then, ridership has steadily increased as crime rates have plummeted, graffiti has disappeared, and ever-increasing numbers of tourists have visited.
Shame for the US,.and New York city to have such a rundown antiquated transit system in the richest city in the world
It’s not the record. The actual record was set on December 23, 1947 when there were 8.8 million riders in one day. And by 1947, many of the city’s elevated lines had been dismantled. Manhattan had already lost the 6th Avenue El (1938), the 9th Avenue El (1940) and the Second Avenue El (1942). In Brooklyn, the Fulton Street El was abandoned in 1940 and several other elevated lines were cut short.
Its a rat infested, crime infested, pigeon feces covered, poorly run packed in like sardines monopoly.