MTA Bus Trips Up 2.8% on Monday, October 26, 2026
Bus trips reached 1,441,107 on Monday, October 26, 2026. That count is up 2.8% from Monday, October 27, 2025.
Key figures
- 1,441,107 bus trips, Monday, October 26, 2026
- +2.8% from October 27, 2025
- 9,048,565 bus trips, 7 days to October 26, 2026
- 23.4% of trips across 5 MTA services, October 26, 2026
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Monday bus trips across the 12 Mondays to October 26, 2026
MTA's daily ridership data runs through October 27, 2026. Bus trips averaged 1,138,121 a day in 2026 through October 26.
Of the 12 Mondays before October 26, the highest count was 1,471,197 trips on September 14, 2026. The lowest was 716,242 trips on September 7, 2026.
The 4 Mondays before October 26 averaged 1,334,771 trips. Set against the 12 earlier Mondays, the October 26 count ranked No. 4, with No. 1 marking the highest of those 13 days.
Bus trips on Monday, October 26, 2026, compared with a year earlier
MTA estimates 1,441,107 bus trips on Monday, October 26, 2026. A year before, October 27, 2025 recorded 1,402,134 trips, and the change is +2.8%.
The gap against the 4-Monday average of 1,334,771 trips is +8.0%.
The Monday before, October 19, 2026, recorded 1,447,276 trips. The change from that Monday to October 26 was -0.4%.
Bus trips totaled 9,048,565 across the 7 days to October 26, 2026. The preceding 7 days, October 13-19, 2026, added up to 9,023,136 trips, and the 7-day change was +0.3%.
Bus placement among MTA services on Monday, October 26, 2026
Bus ranked No. 2 that day among the 5 rail and bus services in MTA's daily ridership data. The others are the Staten Island Railway, Metro-North, LIRR, and the subway.
Bus accounted for 23.4% of trips counted that day across the 5 services.
MTA bus counts from October 20 to October 26, 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 counted 1,506,258 bus trips. Wednesday, October 21, counted 1,503,353, and Thursday, October 22, counted 1,501,767.
Friday, October 23, recorded 1,411,461 bus trips. Saturday, October 24, reached 940,409, and Sunday, October 25, reached 744,210.
Monday, October 26, 2026 closes that run at 1,441,107 trips.
Computed figures in this story (17)
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- O1 MTA estimates 1,441,107 bus trips on Monday, October 26, 2026
- O2 1,402,134 on the same weekday a year earlier (October 27, 2025)
- O3 a change of +2.8% year over year
- O4 the average for the previous 4 Mondays was 1,334,771
- O5 the 2026 daily average through October 26, 2026 was 1,138,121
- O6 1,447,276 on the previous Monday, October 19, 2026
- O7 a week-over-week change of -0.4%
- O8 the highest of the previous 12 Mondays was 1,471,197 on September 14, 2026
- O9 a gap of +8.0% against that 4-Monday average
- O10 Monday's figure ranked No. 4 when set against the previous 12 Mondays (No. 1 means the highest of those 13 days)
- O11 the lowest of the previous 12 Mondays was 716,242 on September 7, 2026
- O12 bus ranked No. 2 that day among the 5 rail and bus services in the file (subway, bus, LIRR, Metro-North, Staten Island Railway)
- O13 bus made up 23.4% of the day's trips across those 5 services
- O14 the 7 days to October 26, 2026 added up to 9,048,565 bus trips
- O15 9,023,136 in the 7 days before that (October 13-19, 2026)
- O16 a 7-day change of +0.3%
- O17 the data of the source 'MTA Daily Ridership and Traffic: Beginning 2020 (data.ny.gov sayj-mze2)' runs through October 27, 2026
How this story was made
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