The Golden State Valkyries’ championship parade on Nov. 4 also broke transit records. Muni and BART both had their busiest single days since the pandemic.
KQED reported that Muni logged just over 600,000 trips, beating its October post-pandemic record by more than 10,000. SFGATE said that is more than double the roughly 290,000 trips on the day of the Warriors’ 2022 parade. BART recorded 260,738 trips, beating its Oct. 6 mark, with big jumps at Embarcadero and Montgomery.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Bay Link blog said San Francisco Bay Ferry carried 16,385 passengers, its highest weekday total since 2013.
“Valkyries fever is very real,” SFMTA communications director Parisa Safarzadeh told KQED, noting that ridership is usually lower in November than in October. The records came a day after voters in several Bay Area counties passed tax measures that avoid deep transit service cuts.