The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations to show how public transit ridership in Washington, D.C., has fallen due to COVID-19. One visualization shows that the decline in metro rail ridership from 2020 to 2021 has been greatest in white neighborhoods. For example, stations in neighborhoods where at least 66 percent of the residents are Black or Hispanic experienced an average decline in daily trips of only 78 percent, whereas other stations in predominantly white neighborhoods experienced an average decline of 88 percent. Another visualization compares the number of riders and their weekday rail commute times from before and during the pandemic and shows that the greatest concentration of ridership has shifted from between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Visualizing Changes in Public Transit Ridership in Washington, D.C.
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