New Yorkers took a record 3.7 million subway trips Wednesday, Sept. 14, the highest number since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak began in March 2020, transit officials announced Thursday.
MTA chief Janno Lieber and fellow transit leaders celebrated new pandemic-era record ridership numbers at Grand Central Terminal on Sept. 15.to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams
The Long Island Rail Road counted 202,700 riders Wednesday, second only during the pandemic to 204,000 a week earlier, while Metro-North broke back-to-back records at 181,600 trips Wednesday and 180,200 Tuesday. The increase in ridership followed the return of students and office workers after Labor Day. Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul alsoHalf a billion rides have been paid for through the MTA’s tap payment system OMNY since it launched in mid-2019., the MTA’s new consolidated scheduling and ticketing smartphone app for LIRR and Metro-North, since it launched on Aug. 17, with about 208,000 daily users.
“There’s no question that we’re that some version of work from home is here to stay,” Lieber said Thursday. “But the numbers that we’re seeing, the surge in ridership that we’re seeing, says that back to the office is a meaningful trend.”
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