Public transit ridership dropped during the pandemic, and has been slow to recover.

Weekly weekday ridership percent change from pre-pandemic baseline. MBTA.

Pre-pandemic baseline is the week of March 2, 2020. Data only for weekdays. Lines whose service was discontinued between 2019-2021 were removed. Service between select Blue Line stations were suspended in April and May 2022.

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