Let’s make this quick so everyone can get to the yelling: A total of 61,274 people rode the Milwaukee streetcar, The Hop, in December 2019. That’s an average of 1,977 per day. The lightest day of traffic was Christmas (duh), when only 818 people rode the thing. The busiest day of traffic was December 27, when 3,446 folks hopped aboard.
The numbers are up slightly from November 2019, when 52,998 total rides were recorded. Remember back in September 2019, when ridership dipped slightly and we said it was TIME TO SCRAP THE WHOLE THING? We take it all back: this slight bump proves we should EXPAND THE HELL OUT OF THE THING.
Here are the numbers for The Hop’s first 14 months. And yes, it will remain free in 2020. And seriously: expand this thing. And seriously: sponsor this thing.
NOVEMBER 2018
Total rides: 80,361
Average daily ridership: (excluding opening weekend): 2,459
DECEMBER 2018
Total rides: 76,131
Average daily ridership: 2,456
JANUARY 2019
Total rides: 48,354
Average daily ridership: 1,560
FEBRUARY 2019 (estimated, due to missing data)
Total rides: 45,000
Average daily ridership: 1,607
MARCH 2019 (estimated, due to missing data)
Total rides: 50,000
Average daily ridership: 1,613
APRIL 2019
Total rides: 55,657
Average daily ridership: 1,855
MAY 2019
Total rides: 62,937
Average daily ridership: 2,030
JUNE 2019
Total rides: 71,367
Average daily ridership: 2,379
JULY 2019
Total rides: 103,625
Average daily ridership: 3,343
AUGUST 2019
Total rides: 80,113
Average daily ridership: 2,584
SEPTEMBER 2019
Total rides: 66,986
Average daily ridership: 2,233
OCTOBER 2019
Total rides: 62,010
Average daily ridership: 2,000
NOVEMBER 2019
Total rides: 52,998
Average daily ridership: 1,767
DECEMBER 2019
Total rides: 61,274
Average daily ridership: 1,977