Caltrain ridership is surging: Doubling over past 2 years & up 60% over past year. Ridership is now ~2/3 of pre-COVID. It’s rising every month.
When we support & improve transit, people ride it.
That’s why we’re working so hard to stabilize transit funding & improve service.
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I took the Caltrain last week while on a business trip to silicon valley (I was just following ChatGPTs instructions to get around). It was easy and clean and fast and cheap. My local colleagues had the reflex to use Uber for everything for some reason.
Big increase! Thank you!
The growing SF Bay ferry system is also supportive of those with e-wheelchairs, e-scooters, bicycles for going car-free and supports access to Caltrain.
Caltrain is a great place to score drugs and free handsies
Thanks Scott!
We need to connect BART and CALTRAIN with Dumbarton Rail, with a stop in East Palo Alto. Small little project, I am sure you can get it done!
Nice job. Can you please also help to fast track the extension to salesforce transit center. I bet you this would double ridership.
Thank you for your work on SB63 and SB79! Both addresses financial stability head on! please support the regional measure.
Might be shocking but not being a ferry system for the unhoused and drug users can do wonders for ridership
Good to hear but if you want to increase ridership then help businesses by removing regulations, providing tax relief. I’m all for funding public transit but it need to be on the back of growing our corporate revenue base.
One would think it should be as high, or higher, than pre Covid. 2/3 is not a bragging point
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Mass transit usage is lower than it was 10 years ago despite population growth and its not due to lack of spending
Make it safe and orderly and everyone will want to ride. Tolerate even the smallest petty crime and it's all a waste. That's all you have to do if you want to see ridership skyrocket.
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So, ridership is 66% of pre-Covid numbers. Was Caltrain fiscally sustainable before Covid?
That's not a great accomplishment because you haven't even gotten to pre-Covid levels.
Love the way you spin the numbers though.
Then stop wasting transit funds on street closures. Tax payers don’t want to fund your anti family anti car agenda any then get taxed even more to save failing public transit bc of it. Your career must not go higher. You must not continue to fail up
If so many people are riding it, why don’t you just charge them to ride and make it break even
2/3rds of pre-covid. The rest of the country doesn’t talk pre-covid anymore. That was a long time ago
Trains were dead empty and ran constantly over the past 5 years. Who paid for that?
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The exaggerated and drawn out hoax known as covid 19 has destroyed public transit
20/20 campaign? $20/gal for gas, $20/hr unskilled labor. More people will be using those electric bikes. I’m sure you will find a way to continue to legislate unhappiness. Those riders; are they riding for free? Are they living on the transit?
You suck Weiner…nobody wants to ride on those crime infested rail cars!
Really, that's what you came up with today.
Put your Fucking mask on.
Drug addicts riding to city to shoot up?
How about loser of The Smart Train in Marin/Sonoma. Just an excuse for your developwhore forced high rise housing around the stations in greenfields. $90 subsidy per boarding. Now they want bridge toll money to survive. Deny it= credence.
central subway to north beach and beyond, please. also, we need to get a handle on transit safety/cleanliness - especially bart.
Only 76% of pre Covid? What have you morons been doing in California. That was 5 years ago
We know you globalist commies want us in 15 minute cities riding busses and owning nothing.
Please also focus on making the system more financially efficient
We should cut costs, headcount, and implement AI
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Wait for the current numbers, its plummeting with Ice Raids. I take the bus for work in LA, down a minimum 20% - 30% from what I've observed
What will happen to ridership once the illegals are sent to their home countries?
When you drive out people who can afford living anywhere else, the only people left are the ones who can only ride transit.
Yeah it’s called companies moving out of SF and into the South Bay and forcing 5 day RTO prick
Your lackey is blocking his constituent. So illegal like everything he does.
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See when we raise gas prices they'll be forced to take public transportation look at the big brains on Scott
ILLEGALS love the trolley!! You give it FREE to so many of course numbers went up too.
You and the rest of the CA legislature are a disgrace. You are a fucking child groomer
You do realize that every other city outside California has recovered from covid, right? 
Scott Weener, the pedophile advocate and Groomer is behind the targeted assault on Ca suburbs …
Every piece of legislation he puts forth is utter radical garbage
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Families should be able to enjoy city life. They shouldn't have to expect sketchy behavior when walking or riding the bus. If you truly support "all ages and abilities" planning, then don't dodge the difficult conversations about safety & security.
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the fact that in most of America you need to buy a car (+parking, insurance, maintenance, gas, etc) to live your life because walking, biking, and transit infrastructure is so bad
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