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New York City Transit
Bus: Monthly Ridership

Graph of New York City Transit Bus Monthly Ridership Performance Indicators

Sep 2008: 64,956,000

Jan — Sep 2008: 559,862,556
Sep 2009: 61,253,000 Jan — Sep 2009: 543,519,998

Ridership is the number of passengers for whom the agency receives a fare, either through direct fare payment (e.g., cash, Pay-Per-Ride MetroCards, Unlimited Ride MetroCards, etc.) or fare reimbursements (senior citizens, school children, the physically disabled). Passengers that use free transfers (either train-to-bus, bus-to-train or bus-to-bus) are counted as additional passengers even though they are not paying additional fares. Ridership counts exclude Paratransit passengers.