2016 Ridership Wrapup + Jan 2017
by Matthew Johnson from Seattle Transit Blog on (#2ER2M)
Sound Transit has released their fourth quarter ridership data which wraps up 2016 as well as the January 2017 numbers.
Average daily ridership for Link in January was:
- Weekday: 66,060 (+89.0%)
- Saturday: 49,853 (+134.7%)
- Sunday: 31,741 (+63.0%)
Other weekday modal ridership stats:
- Sounder: 17,057 (+2.5%)
- Tacoma Link: 3,072 (-7.2%)
- ST Express: 63,144 (+0.7%)
- Sound Transit Systemwide, +27.0% Weekday, +34.7% Total Boardings
The complete January Ridership Summary is here. The Q4 numbers are here.
Also released were station ridership stats for Q4:
- University of Washington: 9,300 daily boardings
- Capitol Hill: 6,800
- Westlake: 10,200 - up 37.8% over Q4 2015
- University Street: 5,100 - up 88.9%
- Pioneer Square: 3,900 - up 85.7%
- International District Chinatown: 5,300 - up 65.6%
- Stadium: 1,100 - up 37.5%
- SODO: 2,000 - up 53.8%
- Beacon Hill: 2,700 - up 35%
- Mount Baker: 2,300 - up 15%
- Columbia City: 2,400 - up 33.3%
- Othello: 2,400 - up 26.3%
- Rainier Beach: 1,900 - up 26.7%
- Tukwila/International Blvd: 2,700 - No change
- SeaTac/Airport: 5,200 - down 10.3%
- Angle Lake: 2,800
My charts below the fold.
