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The VTA has a really spiffy data portal where you can get detailed ridership numbers. This is neat! However, the portal is slow (apparently nine million rows is a lot), and cranky about permalinks. I think the data only goes back to January of 2014. So, filtering on Line (900, 901, 902 for light rail as opposed to bus service) and using "roll-ups" on date (by day) and "on" (boardings) with "sum" aggregation, plus sorting by "on", the maximum ridership in the dataset is 36,105 on September 30, 2014, which isn't any more than the record from 2008. But since it took me this long to actually use the darned thing, I figured I'd make a note of it here. (Seriously, it is slow.) grendel| khan 23:01, 20 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Isn't it a bit disingenuous to post the 2021 ridership numbers as proof that people aren't using the system, there was a mass shooting at the railyard in 2021. I think we shouldn't try to post things in this article that make it seem like we are trying to trick the reader. I would suggest 2019 numbers, or we should put the caveat that the system was shut down for months in 2021. 98.210.12.230 ( talk) 19:17, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

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FYI... changes are coming to VTA bus and light rail routes on Dec 28. Ikluft ( talk) 00:30, 5 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Just saying this out loud -- the rail infrastructure section needs work. A lot of these projects seem to border on (to steal another Silicon Valley term) vaporware. Many of these plans date back to the mid-2000s when the VTA seemed to think that every part of the county needed a light rail line, no matter how small the ridership. Which of these projects are actually likely to happen? Should some be removed? Should we add a section talking about VTA's plans that never got off the drawing board? -- RickyCourtney ( talk) 22:36, 26 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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