Originally Posted by
ijgordon
I suspect ridership has fallen much more significantly later in the week as more businesses have moved to work-from-home (my company starts alternate-week WFW on Monday). I often take the bus, as I think I did Mon-Wed, but the last 2 days the 1/2/3 line from UWS was significantly below normal crowd levels at the end of the AM rush (9:30am-ish, when it can often be bad because train frequency normally is diminished by then). I got seats (plus an empty next to me) both days! That's very anecdotal of course, but I think I've seen the stats that the subway is running down high-teens %.
Oh, yeah, I missed that
stimpy's post was about Monday. Thing changed pretty dramatically after the WHO pandemic call on Wednesday.