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Originally Posted by Bootstrap Bill
According to Wikipedia, NYC MTA has 11,574,566 riders every week day, or 3,009,387,160 riders every year, not including weekends.
That works out to about $.11 per ride, or $.22 per day per person assuming an average of two trips per day.
If they raise the price of passes $5.00 and single ride fares $.11, they should have enough to make up the shortage.
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Um, no. According to the MTA, the agency provides 8,739,680 rides per weekday, but that includes the subway, city buses, two suburban railways and a suburban bus system. MTA NYC Transit, which is just the subway and city buses, provides 7,626,264 rides per weekday.
http://www.mta.info/mta/network.htm