Another record year for TTC ridership

535 million in 2014, 30 billion in 2015

The TTC set an all-time record of 534.8 million rides in 2014, surpassing the previous record total of 525.2 million in 2013.

Nearly 10 million more customer trips were taken in 2014 compared to 2013, edging the system evermore closer to its next big milestone – 30 billion riders. The TTC is expected to hit that mark sometime this summer.

TTC ridership has increased each year for the last 11 years. The TTC is projecting a new annual record ridership of 545 million in 2015. Ridership broke the half-billion plateau for the first time in 2011.

The TTC also set a new one-day ridership record in 2014, carrying 1.875 million customers on Nov. 26. The single-day ridership count exceeded 1.8 million trips on 33 separate days between September and November. The system carried its highest-ever one-day total of 1,994,535 people at the height of the World Youth Day/Papal Visit in Toronto in 2002.

Approximately 85 per cent of all local transit trips in the GTA are made on the TTC (or about 75 per cent if GO Transit, the regional carrier, is counted).

The TTC has the third largest ridership in North America, after Mexico City and New York City, both of which have populations greater than eight million people.

The TTC carries one billion riders roughly every 22 months.

RIDER STATS (in millions)