Metro News Release

For immediate release: June 9, 2005

Metro Records 6th Highest Ridership Day in History

Metrorail reached its sixth highest weekday ridership in its 29-year history yesterday (Wednesday, June 8, 2005) with 761,652 trips taken. Combined with Metrobus ridership, that means Metro provided approximately 1.3 million trips yesterday.

Typical weekday ridership usually sees anywhere between 670,000 to 690,000 customers taking trips on Metrorail.

Metrorail’s Top 10 Weekday Ridership Days Date Ridership Event 1) 06-09-04 850,636 Reagan State Funeral 2) 01-20-93 811,257 Clinton Inaugural #1 3) 10-16-95 804,146 Million Man March 4) 04-14-05 766,184 First Nationals Game 5) 06-10-04 763,121 Reagan State Funeral 6) 06-08-05 761,652 Nationals Game 7) 01-19-05 757,126 Bush Inaugural (#2) Events 8) 04-06-05 755,559 Cherry Blossoms 9) 04-20-05 751,455 Nationals Game 10) 06-07-05 750,280 Nationals Game

News release issued on June 9, 2005.