Finding F3
BART’s annual ridership peaked at approximately 132 million trips in FY2016 and declined 5.2% to 128.2 million trips by FY2019, according to BART’s National Transit Database reporting.
Jury report: BART at a Crossroads: Structural Deficit, Governance Accountability, and the Choices Ahead · PDF page 21
Permanent linkOfficial response
BART Board of Directors
Partially disagrees: NTD peak was 137.7m in FY2016, declining 6.9% to 128.2m in FY2019.
Read official response · PDF page 2Directly identifies disputed peak and decline with named dataset. Formal 132m/5.2% wording is retained in inventory.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.