Metro News Release
For immediate release: June 14, 2007
Metrorail records ninth highest weekday ridership in its 31-year history
789,247 riders used Metrorail on Wednesday, June 13
Hundreds of thousands of people yesterday helped Metro set the transit agency’s ninth highest ridership day in the history of the 31-year-old rail system. Riders took 789,247 trips, which was 2,404 more trips than the same day last year. There was no special event yesterday, though continued high gas prices and the influx of visitors to the region 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 | 06-07-07 | 793,392 | Baseball |
| 9 | 06-13-07 | 789,247 | No event |
| 10 | 06-13-06 | 786,843 | Baseball |
News release issued at 12:00 am, June 14, 2007.