Metro News Release

For immediate release: June 6, 2007

Metrorail Records 10th Highest Ridership In its 31-Year History

783,024 Riders Used Metrorail on Tuesday, June 5

Hundreds of thousands of people yesterday helped Metro set the transit agency’s 10th highest ridership day in the history of the 31-year-old rail system. Riders took 783,024 trips, which was 24,097 more trips than the same day last year. Beautiful weather and the Washington Nationals contributed to yesterday’s high numbers. Combined with Metrobus ridership, Metro provided nearly 1.2 million trips yesterday. Typical weekday bus ridership has been about 424,000 trips.

Metrorail’s Top 10 Weekday Ridership Days
Date               Ridership                           Event

1 06-09-04    850,636                                 Reagan State Funeral
2 04-03-07    831,508                                 Cherry Blossoms/Baseball
3 04-10-06    821,283                                 Immigrant Rights Rally
4 01-20-93    811,257                                 Clinton Inaugural #1
5 03-31-06    808,108                                 Cherry Blossoms
6 10-16-95    804,146                                 Million Man March
7 06-13-06    786,843                                 Baseball
8 07-27-06    783,374                                 Baseball
9 06-16-06    783,093                                 Baseball
10 06-05-07  783,024                                Baseball
11 07-26-06  782,495                                Baseball


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News release issued at 12:00 am, June 6, 2007.