Metro News Release

For immediate release: April 19, 2006

Yesterday sets Eighth Highest Ridership Day in Metrorail History

Hundreds of thousands of people yesterday helped Metro set the transit agency’s eighth highest ridership day. Riders took 765,516 trips, which was 15,760 more trips than the same day last year. There were no significant events that contributed to yesterday’s numbers. Combined with Metrobus ridership, Metro provided nearly 1.2 million trips yesterday. Typical weekday bus ridership has been about 451,000 trips.

Metrorail’s Top 10 Weekday Ridership Days

      Date             Ridership     Event Ridership               Event

1   06-09-04      850,636        133,000                           Reagan State Funeral Ceremony

2   04-10-06      821,283         131,000                          Immigrant Rights Rally

3   01-20-93      811,257                                                Clinton Inaugural #1

4   03-31-06      808,108            49,000                         Cherry Blossoms

5 10-16-95        804,146           500,000                        Million Man March

6 07-21-05        769,553             26,550                        Baseball

7 04-14-05        766,184              54,650                       1st Baseball Game

8 04-18-06         765,516                                                No Event

9 07-20-05         764,663             21,700                        Baseball

10 06-30-05       764,425             22,750                        Baseball

News release issued on April 19, 2006.