Super Bowl helps BART crush weekend-day ridership record
Super Bowl helps BART crush weekend-day ridership record
Super Bowl 50 is fueling a huge boost in ridership for Bay Area public transit, with BART reporting its busiest weekend day in history Saturday — and three of its top eight busiest weekdays ever during the past week.
BART ridership totaled 419,162 on Saturday, topping the old weekend-day record by 100,000, as the NFL van village Super Bowl City drew fans to downtown San Francisco.
A Metallica show at AT&T Park and a Golden State Warriors game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Oakland also drew big crowds to BART.
Oct. 31, 2012 — 568,061 rides on the day of the Giants’ World Series victory parade and Halloween.
Nov. 13, 2010 — 522,198 rides on the day of the Giants’ World Series victory parade.
Oct. 31, 2014 — 511,640 rides on the day of the yet another Giants World Series victory parade.