Transit officials on Thursday sought ways to re-energize Metrorail in a bid to ease a looming pandemic-induced budget shortfall.
With two months remaining in the fiscal year, Metro already has met its annual goal for passenger trips as the number of transit users is 40 percent above projections. Metro board members say crime- and pandemic-related proposals — such as studying a mask requirement for certain rail cars — could help boost ridership on the rail system.
Metrorail last week averaged 223,600 daily trips on weekdays, about 35 percent of pre-pandemic levels, while Metrobus averaged 297,600 daily trips, or 88 percent of trips taken before the pandemic. The bus system, which charges lower fares and carries riders who typically have lower incomes and fewer transportation alternatives than rail riders, accounts for about 60 percent of Metro riders.
said this week that Metro’s financial future depends on getting rail ridership this year to 50 percent or 60 percent of pre-pandemic levels.“The bus ridership percentage of 87 percent [last week] is encouraging, but that is likely the result of diversion of rail riders to bus and the lower bus fares,” he said. “Rail riders pay more than bus riders — especially the peak-period riders — and it was rail revenues that historically counted for much of the passenger revenue numbers Metro relied on.
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