Highest Single Day Subway Ridership Reached in Nearly Five Years
Ridership on Saturday, Dec. 7 Exceeded 3 Million Riders — Record on any Saturday in Past Five Years
67 Percent of All Riders Used Tap-and-Go Fare Payments
Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Subway had a record ridership of 4,497,599 passengers commuting on Dec. 12 — this is the highest ridership for a single weekday since March 11, 2020. Sixty-seven percent of all subway trips on Dec. 12 were taken using Tap-and-Go payments.
“Our subway system is the lifeblood of New York City, and these ridership levels are just the beginning of what our transit system could be,” Governor Hochul said. “We can’t achieve these record ridership numbers without investing in the MTA — New Yorkers need fast and reliable transit every day so that their commutes are stress-free, and we are going to continue our efforts to deliver a better public transit system for every rider.”
The ridership record coincided with the first day OMNY cards became available to 1.5 million Reduced-Fare riders. This comes as the MTA continues its lightning pace of Tap-and-Go fare payment integration across the transit system to expedite the commute time for all New Yorkers. Since receiving Student OMNY cards with expanded benefits at the start of the school year, students alone have tapped more than 20 million times.
So far, it has been a strong week for subway ridership, which also exceeded four million passengers on both Tuesday, Dec. 10 and Wednesday, Dec. 11. On Dec. 7, the MTA saw 3,016,134 riders take the subway — the highest on any Saturday in 5 years — which reflects a surge in discretionary mass transit travel also being seen on the MTA’s commuter railroads, where weekend ridership is exceeding 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels.
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