BART ridership hasn't recovered to pre-pandemic levels. While federal financial emergency funding is keeping it afloat, that money will run out in a few years. We explain what this means.
The ABC7 News Data Team analyzed BART data from before the pandemic in January of 2019 through July of 2022.
Total ridership drastically decreased with total station exits dropping from more than 10 million in July of 2019 to more than 1 million in July of 2020. In July of 2022 total station exits had only rebounded to more than 3 million.: "Well certainly the remote work model has really changed a lot of the dynamics for us, the biggest factor in our ridership is office occupancy."
Prior to the pandemic, in July of 2019, Embarcadero and Montgomery Street were the two stations with the largest number of exits. In July of 2022 that was still true, however the total station exits were significantly lower at each. Embarcadero total station exits were approximately 71% lower and Montgomery Street total station exits were approximately 75% lower.
"Embarcadero and Montgomery Street heavily relied on people who worked in the financial district," said Allison.VIDEO:
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