NYC Subway Breaks Ridership Record

Via the New York Daily News:

If you think the subway is more crowded than ever you’re right: The MTA set a ridership record last month. Subway trains carried 149 million passengers in September — the most of any September in more than 60 years, according to the MTA. The newly available figures also show 6.1 million people rode the subway on Tues., Sept. 23, making it the highest daily ridership since reliable numbers were first recorded in 1985, according to the MTA. The subways swelled during the People's Climate March last month. There were 2.9 million riders on Sept. 21 — the highest for a Sunday since the 1940s, the MTA said.

Twenty years ago the daily ridership averaged a "mere" 3.9M.