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Originally Posted by mrnyc
^ mta remains in the 30s-40s% per pandemic ridership levels across the week these days.
https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership
the real problem i notice, as a daily rider, is inconsistency and longer waits for trains all week long.
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No, the MTA subway is at 70% ridership, the MTA bus is at 85% ridership and the MTA railroads are at 55% ridership.
There are no cuts to weekday service. The one major pandemic-era service change is no express trains on certain routes. LIRR and Metro North cut most of their peak rush hour trains, but are signaling that some will shortly be restored.
Weekend MTA ridership is at 100% of pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that the ridership dip is almost entirely WFH (and probably, in core areas, drop-off of intl. visitor counts). So MTA ridership won't match pre-pandemic weekday counts until full WFH drops significantly, and that won't be for a while.
Most transit agencies are saying 2025 or so for matching pre-pandemic counts. I think it might be a bit sooner. Intl. travel will probably have a full rebound by 2023-24, and set work norms will probably be established by then.