Houston METRO Ridership Update
This week we have yet another excellent analytical blog post from Oscar Slotboom (he's on a roll!)
Metro's 2025 fiscal year ended at the end of September. Bill King has some good commentary about Metro's ridership in his most recent blog post, especially on the topics of light rail and Uptown BRT.
Metro's annual financial report becomes available in early April, which is when I do the comprehensive analysis of Metro's performance. Metro recently posted its September ridership data, so now is a good time for an updated monthly ridership plot. September and October are the highest ridership months of the year, so September looks good compared to the 12-month pre-Covid average (which includes low-ridership months).
As usual, I focus on weekday boardings. Overall weekday boardings of 260,782 in September is a post-Covid high, 14.0% below September 2019 and 8.2% below the 12-month pre-Covid average. Metro ridership continues to outperform the national average, which has been about 20% below 2019 in recent months.
Bus ridership of 197,494 is 2.8% below September 2019 and 3.7% above the 12-month pre-Covid average. If the current trend continues, we should see bus ridership reach the pre-Covid corresponding monthly values as soon as 2026.
MetroRail continues to perform poorly. September was 32.0% below September 2019, 3.3% below September 2024 and 27.5% below the 12-month pre-Covid average. While bus ridership has had continuous improvement, light rail ridership has been flat for the last three years.
Park and ride service continues its slow, incremental improvement from its near-total collapse in 2020. September was 45.9% below September 2019 and 41.2% below the 12-month pre-Covid average.
posted by Max Concrete @ 1:15 PM
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