Bolstered in part by Halloween festivities in Salem, ridership on the MBTA’s commuter rail has reached a new “post-pandemic peak.’’ Officials said last week that October’s figures demonstrate that more workers have returned to public transportation now that COVID fears have waned. The MBTA announced that ridership levels last month surpassed 90% of pre-pandemic levels. While […]
Fairmount Line ridership jumped by nearly 35 percent during last month’s Red Line diversion on the Ashmont branch and Mattapan trolley, according to the MBTA and Keolis, the company that runs the commuter rail. Together with other increases elsewhere in the system, the ridership on commuter rail “reached a new post-pandemic peak in October,” according to a statement from the T.
The MBTA said Commuter Rail ridership reached a pre-pandemic peak of more than 90% in October, a boost largely driven by Halloween travel to Salem and a diversion on the Red Line that led many riders to seek alternative transportation.