If you ride it, you know. The Red Line is the worst. Just look at the stats.
Daniel Kool | The Boston Globe
“Reduced ridership and fewer total trips have coincided with decreased speeds, data show. In late June 2022, prior to the July slowdowns, Red Line weekday ridership topped 100,000 trips on average, with nearly 200 roundtrips completed each day, according to TransitMatters.
Last week the T scheduled an average of 127 Red Line trips each day and completed 104 of them. Meanwhile, weekday ridership fell to about 83,000 this month, according to TransitMatters. The advocacy group measures ridership in terms of the total number of validated fares, which does not include transfers.
The T’s metrics, which include transfers, show a loss of about half the Red Line’s pre-pandemic ridership.
It’s a far cry from the T’s vision in the 1970s and ‘80s, when the Red Line was extended in each direction, south to Braintree and north to Alewife.”
