The Bay Area Rapid Transit is reporting that as of Friday, they have had a 92% drop in ridership average compared to the Friday average in February.
Also, beginning Monday March 30, SFMTA will implement additional service changes during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. All Muni Metro and light rail routes will be replaced by buses. Customers can take bus substitutions for the J, KT, L, M, and N lines using the same bus stops as the early morning Metro bus service. Muni Metro subway stations will be closed, except for downtown stations which will remain open to customers taking BART during their operating hours. For Metro bus predictions, sign up on NextBus for the JBus, KTBus, LBus, MBus or NBus. Full notice here.
Ridership summary
| Average of 4 Feb weeks (non-holiday) | Week 1 (Mar 2) | Change | %Change | Week 2 (Mar 9) | Change | %Change | |
| Monday | 399,397 | 379,775 | -19,622 | -5% | 301,547 | -97,850 | -24% |
| Tuesday | 415,760 | 388,262 | -27,498 | -7% | 292,192 | -123,749 | -30% |
| Wednesday | 413,275 | 384,382 | -28,893 | -7% | 268,192 | -145,083 | -35% |
| Thursday | 417,531 | 375,215 | -42,316 | -10% | 231,820 | -185,711 | -45% |
| Friday | 375,170 | 328,949 | -46,221 | -12% | 186,605 | -188,565 | -50% |
| Saturday | 149,954 | 113,388 | -36,566 | -24% | 58,187 | -91,767 | -61% |
| Sunday | 94,762 | 74,791 | -19,971 | -21% | 37,006 | -57,756 | -61% |
| Average of 4 Feb weeks (non-holiday) | Week 3 (Mar 16) | Change | %Change | Week 4 (Mar 23) | Change | %Change | |
| Monday | 399,397 | 118,572 | -280,825 | -70% | 34,933 | -364,464 | -91% |
| Tuesday | 415,760 | 54,031 | -361,729 | -87% | 32,117 | -383,643 | -92% |
| Wednesday | 413,275 | 48,085 | -365,190 | -88% | 32,625 | -380,650 | -92% |
| Thursday | 417,531 | 45,915 | -371,616 | -89% | 31,601 | -385,930 | -92% |
| Friday | 375,170 | 42,461 | -332,709 | -89% | 31,142 | -344,028 | -92% |
| Saturday | 149,954 | 18,793 | -131,191 | -87% | |||
| Sunday | 94,762 | 12,737 | -82,025 | -87% |
BART to temporarily reduce service hours based on ridership data
BART has done an exhaustive review of ridership and train car loads this week and will make the following changes to service until further notice:
Starting Monday, March 23, 2020, BART will provide service Monday-Friday from 5am-9pm (currently service is 5am-midnight). Current weekday train frequency will remain.
Starting Saturday March 28, 2020, Saturday and Sunday service will be from 8am-9pm (currently Saturday service is 6am-midnight and Sunday is 8am-midnight). Current weekend train frequency will remain.
All riders must be in the system by 8:45pm to have a guaranteed ride to their destination.
BART will monitor ridership data each day to determine how long these service hours will be in effect.
BART staff is in the process of updating the Trip Planner www.bart.gov/planner to cancel trains after 9pm and before 8am on Saturday.
Once those trips are canceled, the Trip Planner will show any public transit alternatives available.
SFO is offering a free shuttle between some of our stations and the airport after 9pm. Read the flyer for full details.
AC Transit currently offers late night transbay bus service.
AC Transit has created a special page outlining station by station bus options after 9pm. The page provideds alternative routes from inner East Bay BART stations to and from San Francisco, downtown Oakland, and downtown Berkeley between 9:00 p.m. and midnight: http://www.actransit.org/bus-alternatives-for-inner-east-bay-bart-stations-between-900-p-m-and-midnight/
Other systems the currently offer some level of service around BART’s service area after 9pm:
- Capitol Corridor
- SFMTA
- Caltrain
- SamTrans
- County Connection
- Tri Delta Transit
Other agencies may be modifying service as well during the Shelter in Place order. Once you plan your alternative trip, please check the agency’s website as their planned trip information may have changed as well.
Read the full announcement.
3 comments
because BART is UNSAFE, miserable, filled with diseased transients, a delay at every station on your commute, greedy, not capable of managing or providing decent transit, dirty, dirty system as well as the crooked people who run it. I hope it goes under and we all can work from home forever. Would rather quit my job than go back to your overcrowded, expensive, poorly managed system. The most disgusting transit organization allowed to exist which has ruined every town on its line. All that stack and pack housing they are doing by your UNOPENED Stations in Milpitas, etc., is so ugly and is making the State of California Ugly just like your organization. Just go away out if my life for good. BART provided better service 40 years ago than it does today.
I love Bart!
BART is the devil. Fact.
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