Re: L.A. Metro Losing Riders....Did you actually look at the data?
Author: Bob Williams
Date: 01-24-2018 - 12:07
I'm looking at yearly averages, plotted 2012 through 2017.
The Blue Line weekday ridership has trended steadily downward, cumulatively -18% for that period; Green Line daily ridership same trend, -28%.
The Gold Line and the Expo Line weekday ridership on the other hand have substantially increased due to service expansion, and the Red Line has been essentially flat for the same period. Combined rail weekday ridership is up 5%.
The Blue Line has experienced declining security for several years, which has chased away some of the Long Beach to LA commuters. An attempted improvement was made a few months ago by replacing the County Sheriff deputies with Long Beach and LA city police officers. Time will tell if that has helped very much.