Metro News Release
For immediate release: June 7, 2007
Metrorail records seventh highest weekday ridership in its 31-year history
796,087 riders used Metrorail on Wednesday, June 6
Hundreds of thousands of people yesterday helped Metro set the transit agency’s seventh highest ridership day in the history of the 31-year-old rail system. Riders took 796,087 trips, which was 37,160 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 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 | 06-06-07 | 796,087 | Baseball |
| 8 | 06-13-06 | 786,843 | Baseball |
| 9 | 07-27-06 | 783,374 | Baseball |
| 10 | 06-16-06 | 783,093 | Baseball |
| 11 | 06-05-07 | 783,024 | Baseball |
News release issued at 12:00 am, June 7, 2007.