{"id":486272,"date":"2026-10-05T23:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:50:26","slug":"caltrains-ridership-reaching-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486272\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltrain\u2019s ridership reaching pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caltrain&#8217;s average weekend ridership rose to 21,210 passengers in fiscal year 2026, about 50% higher than 2019 levels, as the railroad continues to recover from pandemic-era declines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smdailyjournal.com\/news\/local\/caltrain-weekend-ridership-climbs\/article_92599fb5-ef32-4e8b-b367-084cb7a004e9.html\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The transit agency said <\/a>weekend ridership increased more than 40% from the previous fiscal year, following the introduction of electric trains in September 2024 and a more than doubling of weekend service from 32 to 66 trains a day.<\/p>\n<p>July set a new monthly ridership record of more than 1.3 million passengers, while an average of 32,000 riders traveled on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>Weekday ridership also climbed, reaching an average of 40,800 in fiscal 2026, up about 38% from the previous year and more than 81% of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Station recorded a 41% increase in weekend ridership, while 22nd Street posted the largest station-level gain, at nearly 60%.<\/p>\n<p>Several stations, including South San Francisco, Hayward Park, Lawrence, and Santa Clara, have surpassed their 2019 weekday ridership levels.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the gains, Caltrain faces budget pressures tied to changing commuting patterns and work-from-home trends.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has warned that without additional funding, potential cuts could include closing more than a third of its stations, eliminating weekend service and reducing train frequency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caltrain&#8217;s average weekend ridership rose to 21,210 passengers in fiscal year 2026, about 50% higher than 2019 levels,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-486272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}