Post-COVID Ridership Recovery Update: Empirical Data

The "Work from Home Movement", and other effects from the Spring 2020 outbreak, are still evident in US transit ridership patterns.   As of September 2022, overall ridership was roughly 2/3 of September 2019.   

Nationwide, local bus services are back to 70% patronage from 3 years earlier.   Compared with local bus services, all other modes have recovered a larger fraction of their ridership since the Spring of 2020 but are all carrying a smaller proportion of their 2019 ridership.