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 rail 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.
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