Annual MTA Bus Ridership

Route	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2011-12 Change		2012 Rank
Local Routes
B100	1,334,126	1,485,528	1,476,579	1,442,885	1,310,041	1,293,409	-16,632	-1.3%	35
B103	548,364	1,132,701	1,701,695	2,559,997	3,262,782	3,747,102	+484,320	14.8%	9
Bx23 ¹	-	-	-	398,127	1,303,331	1,218,019	-85,312	-6.5%	36
Q6	3,269,057	3,548,515	3,552,902	3,616,481	3,618,677	3,574,156	-44,521	-1.2%	11
Q7	1,486,090	1,660,881	1,630,309	1,639,997	1,561,575	1,574,342	+12,767	0.8%	32
Q8	2,112,992	2,461,653	2,745,966	2,964,051	3,057,989	3,158,685	+100,696	3.3%	12
Q9	1,399,011	1,626,032	1,589,649	1,565,766	1,550,518	1,579,235	+28,717	1.9%	31
Q10	6,893,543	7,436,341	7,340,505	7,555,754	7,757,619	7,715,656	-41,963	-0.5%	1
Q11	3,459,893	3,261,864	2,645,199	2,520,945	2,161,582	1,727,537	-434,045	-20.1%	25
Q18	2,328,305	2,525,024	2,635,930	2,691,162	2,544,439	2,590,414	+45,975	1.8%	17
Q19	353,299	662,774	724,003	692,628	733,947	810,328	+76,381	10.4%	40
Q21	286,372	535,705	1,008,236	1,085,138	1,115,788	1,147,774	+31,986	2.9%	37
Q22	2,147,880	2,439,272	2,437,823	2,478,327	2,310,923	2,263,986	-46,937	-2.0%	19
Q23	4,391,006	5,227,485	5,267,491	5,172,337	5,110,777	4,965,290	-145,487	-2.8%	5
Q25	4,474,220	5,313,901	5,284,803	5,257,568	5,452,562	5,853,183	+400,621	7.3%	3
Q29	1,846,398	2,063,887	2,040,780	2,012,716	1,924,371	1,863,833	-60,538	-3.1%	24
Q33	2,798,428	2,890,637	2,846,902	2,872,796	2,949,444	3,074,278	+124,834	4.2%	13
Q34	1,743,789	1,812,795	1,726,522	1,771,808	1,747,502	1,712,602	-34,900	-2.0%	27
Q35	1,313,008	1,410,853	1,399,454	1,463,011	1,440,465	1,395,631	-44,834	-3.1%	34
Q37	1,823,215	1,993,666	1,960,052	1,983,457	1,947,067	2,155,070	+208,003	10.7%	20
Q38	2,167,129	2,425,777	2,448,523	2,195,423	1,919,096	1,923,934	+4,838	0.3%	23
Q39	1,871,100	2,002,360	1,935,252	1,841,440	1,619,604	1,590,125	-29,479	-1.8%	29
Q40	1,577,344	1,721,435	1,657,016	1,615,750	1,614,028	1,582,261	-31,767	-2.0%	30
Q41	2,019,371	2,104,665	2,053,137	2,115,338	2,109,202	2,138,125	+28,923	1.4%	21
Q47/Q45 ⁴	2,076,491	2,256,086	2,301,905	2,340,464	2,320,628	2,289,537	-31,091	-1.3%	18
Q49 / Q19B²	2,269,010	2,557,433	2,582,376	2,634,187	2,613,240	2,628,540	+15,300	0.6%	16
Q50 ¹	-	-	-	305,461	1,012,629	1,062,171	+49,542	4.9%	38
Q52 ⁶						671,422	+671,422		43
Q53	2,645,787	3,633,020	4,137,598	4,775,190	5,021,635	5,007,501	-14,134	-0.3%	4
Q60	4,778,839	5,374,460	5,155,782	5,056,995	4,900,914	4,793,143	-107,771	-2.2%	6
Q64 / Q65A ²	945,585	3,032,879	2,844,252	2,880,408	2,960,584	2,988,166	+27,582	0.9%	14
Q65	7,545,636	5,815,092	5,664,057	5,591,808	5,574,120	5,854,542	+280,422	5.0%	2
Q66	4,390,153	4,650,039	4,423,962	4,081,463	3,933,626	4,158,714	+225,088	5.7%	8
Q67	748,124	781,764	716,445	670,491	692,826	685,648	-7,178	-1.0%	42
Q69 / Q19A ²	2,775,541	3,121,152	3,092,361	3,170,509	3,046,006	2,887,471	-158,535	-5.2%	15
Q72	1,722,675	1,925,226	1,852,237	1,795,846	1,738,686	1,717,680	-21,006	-1.2%	26
Q89 / Q9A ^2, ³	22,228	22,029	24,609	13,172
Q100 / Q101R ²	837,909	868,592	1,094,062	1,224,248	1,319,577	1,420,910	+101,333	7.7%	33
Q101	1,304,218	1,318,842	1,183,094	1,099,587	1,032,556	1,020,574	-11,982	-1.2%	39
Q102	928,468	927,968	846,757	801,886	774,738	749,108	-25,630	-3.3%	41
Q103	124,043	124,163	115,042	110,443	138,205	160,918	+22,713	16.4%	45
Q104	826,345	832,326	759,976	693,448	669,605	651,124	-18,481	-2.8%	44
Q110	2,078,845	2,254,210	2,204,468	2,141,162	2,101,243	2,089,207	-12,036	-0.6%	22
Q111	4,003,678	4,420,184	4,352,343	4,333,622	4,288,752	4,274,980	-13,772	-0.3%	7
Q112	1,557,948	1,746,802	1,669,565	1,654,968	1,676,805	1,693,957	+17,152	1.0%	28
Q113	3,231,919	3,687,030	3,625,761	3,601,244	3,585,396	3,595,325	+9,929	0.3%	10
QBx1¹	2,177,081	2,363,220	2,384,566	1,633,526
Local Total	98,634,463	109,456,268	109,139,946	110,123,030	109,525,100	111,055,613	+1,530,513	1.4%
Express Routes
BM1	473,820	478,977	415,953	389,622	387,820	363,466	-24,354	-6.3%	8
BM2	371,705	334,163	310,059	293,752	280,573	272,302	-8,271	-2.9%	14
BM3	321,556	327,754	297,045	299,193	295,516	267,019	-28,497	-9.6%	15
BM4	180,282	190,591	186,952	209,054	209,631	194,080	-15,551	-7.4%	20
BM5	131,957	133,506	132,145	138,557	157,565	158,979	+1,414	0.9%	22
BxM1	578,425	571,857	519,297	488,808	469,495	462,527	-6,968	-1.5%	7
BxM2	337,712	312,191	277,629	257,164	260,244	259,425	-819	-0.3%	16
BxM3	290,830	290,493	249,683	229,378	208,076	213,233	+5,157	2.5%	18
BxM4 / 4A / 4B ²	179,958	182,126	156,160	133,942	118,758	116,249	-2,509	-2.1%	26
BxM6	242,168	236,248	207,978	211,823	205,509	204,868	-641	-0.3%	19
BxM7	1,123,282	1,105,902	995,161	955,009	935,399	923,098	-12,301	-1.3%	1
BxM7B ³	21,272	20,909	17,347	8,138
BxM8 / BxM7A ²	608,379	601,201	525,948	494,515	486,570	494,535	+7,965	1.6%	6
BxM9	683,703	703,661	648,398	614,951	623,584	623,652	+68	0.0%	2
BxM10	587,432	589,801	538,626	534,124	523,060	512,705	-10,355	-2.0%	5
BxM11	433,241	433,549	380,913	369,097	364,625	359,336	-5,289	-1.5%	9
BxM18	59,028	60,937	68,079	75,688	77,357	77,800	+443	0.6%	32
QM1 ²	393,313	414,830	377,026	258,727	151,756	155,109	+3,353	2.2%	23
QM1A ²	1,020,955	1,082,969	1,025,780	501,099
QM2	528,087	555,805	520,764	518,798	518,088	522,105	+4,017	0.8%	4
QM3	37,440	38,216	32,486	32,111	32,932	35,434	+2,502	7.6%	35
QM4	275,807	283,758	269,211	237,102	218,859	219,928	+1,069	0.5%	17
QM5 ²	-	-	-	291,750	541,891	536,466	-5,425	-1.0%	3
QM6 ²	-	-	-	137,121	287,858	299,382	+11,524	4.0%	11
QM7 ²	-	-	-	98,396	195,526	190,616	-4,910	-2.5%	21
QM8 ²	-	-	-	74,224	144,967	150,191	+5,224	3.6%	24
QM10	144,899	146,621	129,669	103,360	90,709	88,931	-1,778	-2.0%	31
QM11	122,089	136,550	125,691	110,167	110,229	102,927	-7,302	-6.6%	27
QM12	144,116	149,593	146,149	136,866	127,157	118,503	-8,654	-6.8%	25
QM15	279,614	321,136	322,985	327,975	331,118	341,048	+9,930	3.0%	10
QM16	50,448	81,672	85,116	93,449	97,384	91,474	-5,910	-6.1%	29
QM17	74,787	90,211	92,322	94,054	102,344	100,801	-1,543	-1.5%	28
QM18	64,144	69,301	68,819	65,222	59,997	57,599	-2,398	-4.0%	34
QM20 / QM2A ²	310,217	319,111	301,285	292,566	283,243	288,633	+5,390	1.9%	13
QM21	175,284	173,339	151,741	124,792	97,028	90,383	-6,645	-6.8%	30
QM22 ³	16,570	16,704	15,555	7,603
QM23 ³	5,807	6,089	7,107	3,815
QM24	455,663	459,001	423,529	362,581	309,433	291,655	-17,778	-5.7%	12
QM25 ⁵	-	-	-	35,958	78,688	76,627	-2,061	-2.6%	33
Express Total	10,723,990	10,918,772	10,022,608	9,610,551	9,382,989	9,261,086	-121,903	-1.3%
Adjustment	173,416	288,596	358,555	493,293	472,949	561,100
Grand Total	109,531,869	120,663,636	119,521,109	120,226,874	119,381,038	120,877,799	+1,496,761	1.3%

¹The QBx1 was split into the Q50 and Bx23 on 9/12/10

² Routes were renumbered as follows:

Q49 was Q19B prior to 4/20/08
Q64 was Q65A prior to 9/2/07
Q69 was Q19A prior to 4/20/08
Q89 was Q9A prior to 4/7/08
Q100 was Q101R prior to 4/6/08
BxM4 was BxM4A and BxM4B prior to 6/27/10
BxM8 was BxM7A prior to 9/4/11
Branches of QM1 and QM1A became QM1, QM5, QM6, QM7, and QM8 on 6/27/10
QM20 was QM2A prior to 9/6/11
The downtown branch of QM24 became QM25 on 6/28/10

³ Route eliminated in June 2010

⁴ Q45 and Q47 were combined into Q47 on 9/4/11

⁵ Route Q52 began operating in June 2012 as part a restructuring of the Q21 route

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