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BART is enjoying its best ridership month since the start of the pandemic, thanks in part to the return of crowds taking transit to the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s final homestand.
The 204,265 fare-gate exits reported Tuesday mark the first time the figure has topped 200,000 since March 12, 2020 — days before COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were imposed in the Bay Area.
Late summer and early fall are typically the strongest periods for Bay Area transit ridership, including for BART. Before this month, its post-pandemic daily ridership peaks were recorded in September 2023 — with just over 192,000 trips — immediately after the agency introduced a new schedule…