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VTA Bus and Light Rail Passengers Per Trip Statistics
2000-2001 Fiscal Year


Compiled below are VTA's Bus and Light Rail passengers per trip numbers from the 2000-2001 fiscal year budget. These numbers are considered to be non-official! Statistics below run from best to worst. A lot of lines were left out per the information we have obtained, so this report focuses on the major bus and light rail lines in Santa Clara County. Courtesy of a post to the Usenet newsgroup ba.transportation:

Passengers per Trip

Average Weekday

Line # of riders/trip
22 127
Guadalupe LRT 108
70 80.2
68 75.2
66 74.7
25 65.5
300 56.1
Tasman 26.8
180 23.5
Almaden 6.6
41 4.5
15 4.0
47 4.0
14 2.3
87 2.1

Monday thru Friday, VTA buses have an average of 37.7 passengers per trip, while VTA light rail has 47.8 passengers per trip.

Average Saturday

Line # of riders/trip
22 87.7
Guadalupe LRT 77.4
68 73.1
70 67.1
66 63.2
25 57.9
12 39.3
Tasman LRT 22.3
180 19.9
Almaden LRT 7.2
15 3.1
19 3.1
18 2.3
30 2.0
87 1.9

VTA buses have 36.3 passengers per trip on Saturdays, while VTA Light Rail has 36.9 passengers per trip on Saturdays.

Average Sunday


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