New York – New York City subway ridership has reached its highest level in more than 65 years.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says more than 1.7 billion people rode the subway last year. That’s a 2.6 percent increase from 2013.
Figures released Monday show that 5.6 million people rode the system on weekdays and 6 million took it on an average weekend.
The MTA says at its busiest, it carried more than 6 million customers on 29 weekdays in the last four months of 2014. That’s a level it hasn’t seen since the post-World War II era.
Subway ridership grew across every borough, but Brooklyn saw the largest increase with a 2.7 percent rise in average weekday ridership.
The MTA says it’s seeing increases in ridership in neighborhoods with booming development.
Service is getting worse. Trains are jam packed, for example try getting on an R train on Dekalb Avenue in the morning rush after having waited 15 minutes for it to arrive. Express Buses are beimg eliminated, crime on subways is up, outdoor subway stations are covered in pigeon feces, and indoor subway stations are infested with rats. Lousy service and fares continue to rise yearly.
did they also mention that the trains are their dirtiest, some of the stations are disgusting and when it comes to the busses i see more that say ”next bus please” than ever before…but no worries…they increased the fare anyway
So why is there a budget shortfall ?
While almost all the rest of America has long since been commuting like civilized people should, in their own automobiles, the hapless New Yorkers are herded by their socialist government into communal cars where decent people are squished together with people of vastly different backgrounds, colors and highly divergent standards of personal hygiene. It’s truly revolting!
The buses are even worse!! 3 limited for every 1 local that never shows up. Buses are packed tight and unhigenic. Drivers are nasty. People cram the walkway and dont move to the back. Not to mention the people who sit on the outside seats with an empty window seat.
Bs’d. They raise the fare but the trains ain’t there.
65 years ago the subway system had more track mileage. In 1950, the Third Avenue El was still running in Manhattan and the Bronx, so the Lexington Avenue IRT was not nearly as crowded as today. The Myrtle Avenue el was still running too. Both are long gone.
#1All of the transit big shots should go to london england to see how a good transit system is working.
#2 If the subway system has so many riders why do we need a raise in fare?
New York City now has more cars on the streets than it can safely accomodate
#3 The streets of this city were laid out before the auto was invented and weren’t
made to be used as parking spaces ,as horses were kept in barns and stables.
#4We are rapidly approaching the gridlock situation ,where cars won’t be able to be driven on the streets as there won’t be room to accomodate all of them
#4 the system is now over 100 years old and ”rapidly” falling to pieces
New York can more than acomdate cars and all streets were not originally laid out for cars because they weren’t invented yet. The problems is developers get away with building closer an tighter toghether. Keep building up and up and up. New condominiums every day but they dont build parking into them. The city now implements single muni meters per block so its easy to plop them down anywhere now that never had parking meters before. In short, the city is soffocuating commuters from using cars and pushing them towards mass transit.