Bay Area transit agencies report increases in ridership in recent weeks, as more people commute to offices and, perhaps, sidestep the rising cost of gasoline.
“I think what we’re seeing is people really learning to live with COVID,” said Gwen Litvak, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council. “I think we need public transit more than ever.”
Data for Muni from the SFMTA shows that ridership for the month of February is back to where it was in the fall of 2021. The average daily number of passengers remained between 47 percent to 53 percent of the 720,000 people using the service regularly before the pandemic. “We’re hoping that there are no more waves that will knock us back down and we’ll just stay on an upward trajectory from here,” said Thomas Hall, a spokesman for San Francisco Bay Ferry.
“We spread it out throughout the day knowing that essential workers need to travel at all times of the day and people may not be coming back on a traditional schedule,” Hall told KPIX.
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