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Transit Ridership Analysis and Trends

American Public Transportation Association 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 12-Mar-07 TRANSIT RIDERSHIP REPORT Fourth Quarter 2006 ESTIMATED UNITED STATES UNLINKED TRANSIT PASSENGER TRIPS Contact: Christie R. Dawson Statistician Telephone: (202) 496-4848 Fax: (202) 496-4326 Email: cdawson@apta.com CALENDAR COMPARISON Percent Change OCTOBER Period 2006 2005 2005-2006 NOVEMBER 2006 2005 OCTOBER NOVEMBER 854,351 827,175 DECEMBER 805,150 Fourth Quarter 2,563,854 906,551 863,689 4.96% 773,904 2,464,767 3.29% 4.04% 4.02% Weekdays 21 Saturdays 4 Sundays 5 Holidays 1 1 2006 2005 DECEMBER 2006 2005 20 5 5 ESTIMATED UNLINKED TRANSIT PASSENGER TRIP * CURRENT YEAR (a)(b) PRECEDING YEAR (a)(b) MODE Heavy Rail (000's) Light Rail 34,829 Commuter Rail 38,252 Trolleybus 9,006 Bus Population Group 2,000,000+ 500,000 to 1,999,999 116,046 100,000 to 499,999 Below 100,000 Bus Total 546,546 Demand Response 10,814 Other (c) OCT '06 256,489 345,766 45,309 39,425 10,615 United States Total 906,551 854,351 Canada 194,657 199,171 NOV '06 (000's) (000's) 243,654 31,306 37,442 7,474 327,629 108,170 40,475 36,772 513,046 10,165 9,066 DEC '06 238,936 31,091 35,700 7,926 304,279 977,674 99,129 323,345 34,168 35,176 472,753 9,587 30,566 9,159 805,150 175,976 OCT '06- JAN '06- DEC '06 (000's) 97,226 111,393 24,405 119,952 111,373 1,532,344 28,841 DEC '06 (000's) 739,079 2,887,264 382,799 435,451 102,272 3,861,864 333,546 1,280,052 461,136 439,006 6,042,059 122,177 116,060 2,563,854 10,088,082 569,804 2,163,138 OCT '05 238,457 32,827 36,297 9,659 113,433 41,716 38,066 526,761 10,112 9,575 863,689 189,490 NOV '05 (000's) (000's) 233,251 213,068 29,623 35,888 8,050 316,545 108,279 39,652 37,167 501,643 9,928 8,793 827,175 194,132 DEC '05 (000's) 29,307 35,697 8,496 302,880 99,450 34,357 31,976 468,662 9,464 9,210 773,904 175,431 OCT '05- DEC '05 91,758 107,882 421,902 26,204 952,970 115,725 441,211 107,209 432,819 1,497,066 29,505 27,577 2,464,767 9,805,757 559,053 20 20 20 4 4 4 4 2 2 21 5 5 5 4 1 1 % CHANGE (b) JAN '05- DEC '05 (000's) (000's) 684,776 2,774,583 7.93% 362,428 105,570 Fourth Quarter (000's) (000's) 5.96% 3.25% -6.86% Year -to-Date 4.06% 5.62% 3.21% -3.12% 3,766,761 1,267,739 321,162 5,908,530 118,728 114,016 2.59% 0.68% 3.65% 4.52% 3.88% 1.43% 2.36% 3.60% 4.58% 2.52% 0.97% 2.26% 2.90% 1.79% 2,126,217 4.02% 1.92% 2.88% 1.74% * Preliminary information based on data from reporting systems. Note: Data may differ from that included in Federal Transit Administration reports due to differences in data calculation procedures and in periods of time covered. (a) Transit agencies assigned by urbanized areas or urban places of less than 50,000 population outside urbanized areas based on 2000 U.S. Census Population. (b) Year-to-date ridership adjusted for data received after closing dates of previous issues. (c) Includes aerial tramway, automated guideway, cable car, ferryboat, inclined plane, monorail, and vanpool. American Public Transportation Association 1666 K Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 12-Mar-07 HEAVY RAIL TRANSIT RIDERSHIP REPORT Fourth Quarter 2006 ESTIMATED UNLINKED TRANSIT PASSENGER TRIPS CURRENT YEAR (a)(b) PRECEDING YEAR (a)(b) State and Primary City Transit Agency CA Los Angeles Los Angeles County MTA CA San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area RT DC Washington FL Miami Miami-Dade Transit Agency GA Atlanta Metro Atlanta Rapid Tr Auth