Covid-19 Public Information

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Covid-19 Public Information

Metro continues to actively respond to the Covid-19 public health emergency, taking all appropriate measures to protect the health and safety of our frontline colleagues, our customers, and the community at large. Beginning with the first reported Covid-19 case involving a Metro employee on March 16, Metro has worked to be as transparent as possible, providing specific details on each case as permitted by health privacy law and our own obligations to employee confidentiality.

Following the 100th reported Covid-19 case, Metro has streamlined its public reporting to a provide a continually updated snapshot of case numbers. Metro's commitment to fully and appropriately responding to each case -- including sanitizing and disinfecting workspaces, contact tracing and quarantine -- has not changed.

View details of the first 100 Metro employee cases

Confirmed Cases	Returned to work	Hospitalized
274	221	2

Covid-19 case data was last updated Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Metro only reports confirmed cases involving our employees. Contractors and members of the general public are not included in Metro's public reporting of COVID-19 cases.
For Metro's reporting purposes, a case is considered "confirmed" upon receipt of documentation from public health authorities or an employee's medical provider.

Ridership Monitoring

The table shows estimated rail and bus ridership by day during the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 17, 2020, Metro restated bus ridership figures on this table that are more accurate. See the explanation below for details. Please note that all figures presented on this page are considered unofficial and may be restated as necessary. This data is intended for assessing general trends and/or changes in ridership levels over time.

How Metro estimates bus ridership: Prior to Covid-19, Metro calculated bus ridership using farebox data, i.e. the "cash register" located at the front of each bus. Each passenger who tapped a SmarTrip card or paid with cash would counted, along with input from bus operators logging fare evasion.. Starting in April, Metro has required "rear-door boarding" and waived bus fares as part of a comprehensive effort to protect our frontline workforce from exposure to Covid-19. on Metrobus. Since then, Metro has had to transition to a new method of estimating bus ridership based on data from Automatic Passenger Counter systems (APC), which use infrared sensors mounted near the bus doors that count each passenger as they enter the bus. This method has an inherent "noise factor" that must be calculated and subtracted from the raw figures in order to provide the most reliable estimate of bus ridership each day. Raw, unprocessed data is called "unadjusted" figures, and were initially stated to allow the public to gauge Metro's progress in limiting transit utilization in the interest of public health.

Figures shown below are based on adjusted APC ridership counts for accuracy and to allow for relative comparisons between dates. (For transparency, all previously stated unadjusted ridership figures are available on a separate page. However, we do not recommend using unadjusted figures now that more accurate data is available.)

	2020 Ridership		Change vs. 2019
Date	Rail	Adjusted Bus	Rail	Bus
8/4/20 Tu	53,000	122,000	-92%	-69%
8/3/20 Mo	62,000	137,000	-90%	-65%
8/2/20 Su	26,000	55,000	-86%	-67%
8/1/20 Sa	35,000	75,000	-86%	-65%
7/31/20 Fr	61,000	147,000	-91%	-62%
7/30/20 Th	63,000	129,000	-90%	-68%
7/29/20 We	63,000	139,000	-90%	-64%
7/28/20 Tu	63,000	133,000	-91%	-67%
7/27/20 Mo	61,000	133,000	-90%	-66%
7/26/20 Su	26,000	55,000	-87%	-66%
7/25/20 Sa	34,000	65,000	-88%	-70%
7/24/20 Fr	59,000	134,000	-91%	-65%
7/23/20 Th	62,000	136,000	-91%	-66%
7/22/20 We	59,000	130,000	-92%	-68%
7/21/20 Tu	60,000	127,000	-91%	-68%
7/20/20 Mo	58,000	121,000	-91%	-69%
7/19/20 Su	23,000	49,000	-87%	-67%
7/18/20 Sa	31,000	65,000	-89%	-67%
7/17/20 Fr	60,000	136,000	-91%	-64%
7/16/20 Th	60,000	130,000	-91%	-68%
7/15/20 We	60,000	141,000	-91%	-64%
7/14/20 Tu	60,000	133,000	-91%	-68%
7/13/20 Mo	58,000	130,000	-91%	-68%
7/12/20 Su	24,000	50,000	-87%	-69%
7/11/20 Sa	31,000	63,000	-88%	-70%
7/10/20 Fr	59,000	143,000	-91%	-64%
7/9/20 Th	59,000	125,000	-91%	-67%
7/8/20 We	59,000	139,000	-92%	-67%
7/7/20 Tu	57,000	128,000	-92%	-70%
7/6/20 Mo	57,000	127,000	-90%	-64%
7/5/20 Su	25,000	45,000	-86%	-71%
7/4/20 Sa	37,000	52,000	-90%	-68%
7/3/20 Fr	41,000	58,000	-90%	-64%
7/2/20 Th	63,000	126,000	-90%	-69%
7/1/20 We	62,000	137,000	-90%	-66%
6/30/20 Tu	60,000	122,000	-91%	-70%
6/29/20 Mo	58,000	131,000	-91%	-68%
6/28/20 Su	24,000	47,000	-87%	-72%
6/27/20 Sa	31,000	51,000	-88%	-77%
6/26/20 Fr	57,000	101,000	-91%	-75%
6/25/20 Th	55,000	99,000	-92%	-76%
6/24/20 We	56,000	100,000	-92%	-77%
6/23/20 Tu	53,000	98,000	-92%	-77%
6/22/20 Mo	53,000	98,000	-92%	-76%
6/21/20 Su	22,000	39,000	-90%	-77%
6/20/20 Sa	24,000	42,000	-92%	-81%
6/19/20 Fr	53,000	93,000	-92%	-77%
6/18/20 Th	48,000	95,000	-93%	-77%
6/17/20 We	47,000	90,000	-93%	-78%
6/16/20 Tu	50,000	91,000	-93%	-78%
6/15/20 Mo	50,000	94,000	-92%	-76%
6/14/20 Su	23,000	34,000	-87%	-80%
6/13/20 Sa	31,000	47,000	-79%	-79%
6/12/20 Fr	52,000	97,000	-92%	-77%
6/11/20 Th	47,000	86,000	-93%	-79%
6/10/20 We	49,000	90,000	-92%	-79%
6/9/20 Tu	49,000	91,000	-92%	-80%
6/8/20 Mo	50,000	87,000	-92%	-79%
6/07/20 Su	27,000	40,000	-86%	-74%
6/06/20 Sa	61,000	43,000	-82%	-82%
6/05/20 Fr	47,000	103,000	-93%	-76%
6/04/20 Th	47,000	100,000	-93%	-77%
6/03/20 We	48,000	103,000	-93%	-77%
6/02/20 Tu	45,000	91,000	-93%	-80%
6/01/20 Mo	43,000	100,000	-93%	-78%
5/31/20 Su	20,000	37,000	*	-77%
5/30/20 Sa	24,000	48,000	*	-79%
5/29/20 Fr	41,000	103,000	*	-76%
5/28/20 Th