Metro News Release

For immediate release: July 19, 2007

Metrorail Records Eighth Highest Weekday Ridership In its 31-Year History

803,164 Riders Used Metrorail on Wednesday, July 18

Hundreds of thousands of people helped Metro set the transit agency’s eighth highest ridership day in the history of the 31-year-old rail system on Tuesday. Riders took 803,164 trips, which were 34,182 more trips than the same day last year. Continued high gas prices, an influx of visitors to the region and a Washington Nationals baseball game all contributed to Wednesday’s high numbers.

Combined with Metrobus ridership, Metro provides more than 1.2 million trips on an average weekday.

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 06-22-07 805,153 Baseball
7 10-16-95 804,146 Million Man March
8 07-18-07 803,164 Baseball
9 07-17-07 798,012 Baseball
10 07-12-07 796,651 No Event



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News release issued at 12:00 am, July 19, 2007.