NEW YORK – Ridership on the MTA’s
Metro-North lines increased last year, making it the second-busiest passenger
railroad in the country. The Long Island Rail Road was the busiest.
Metro-North carried 84.66 million passengers in 2014, a 1.5 percent increase
over the previous year. It is the third highest ridership since 1949 and
the highest since the modern record in 2008.
Trips that did not include Grand Central Terminal or Harlem-125th Street
rose by 273 percent since 1984 and non-commutation ridership to Manhattan
has increased by 133 percent, while commutes to Manhattan increased by
31 percent.
Traditional commutes to Manhattan now constitute less than half of total
Metro-North raid ridership. They account for 49 percent of trips taken
in 2014, compared with 67 percent in 1984.
Bronx residents commuting to Westchester County, and Westchester residents
commuting to Connecticut, so-called reversed commuters, as well as Connecticut
residents commuting from the east end of the New Haven Line to major employment
centers in Connecticut, are some of the fastest types of travel on Metro-North.
