{"id":40376,"date":"2021-07-09T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40376"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:51:22","slug":"metrolink-passenger-numbers-almost-reach-50-of-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40376","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink passenger numbers almost reach 50% of pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report being given to the July meeting of the Greater Manchester Transport Committee Metrolink and Rail Networks Sub-committee (catchy title!) it has been confirmed that passenger numbers on Metrolink have now increased to 48% of pre-pandemic levels with a further rise expected after the anticipated removal of restrictions from 19<sup>th<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 48% figure was recorded in two consecutive weeks (14<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st<\/sup> June) but hasn\u2019t been the highest that patronage has been on Metrolink as that was recorded the week of 24<sup>th<\/sup> May \u2013 which happened to coincide with a bank holiday and school half term. This tends to suggest that with 19<sup>th<\/sup> July also marking the start of many school holidays that passenger numbers will see a fairly significant rise at that point. TfGM are also expecting that a further rise will be seen in September as businesses continue to open up. Currently more passengers are using Metrolink for leisure with weekend numbers being between 60% and 70% but there is also a return to peak time patterns in the morning and evening peaks.<\/p>\n<p>The patronage figures revealed in this report give an interesting snapshot of how things have fluctuated since the pandemic began. Passenger numbers fell as low as 5% at the start of April 2020 before they gradually increased up to 41% in mid-September. There was then another fall to 23% in November, a rise to 34% in mid-December, another fall to 15% in January before it has mainly increased week on week since. The most significant rise was seen the week of 12<sup>th<\/sup> April (going from 22% the previous week to 41%).<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the report was that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2% of scheduled miles operated in the 12 months to May 2021 (against a performance target of 99.4%). This continues to be affected by self-isolation requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Punctuality remains above the 90% target (12 month average of 94.0%)<\/li>\n<li>The tram fleet availability is just below the 90% target. The 12 month average has been 88.5%. This has been made challenging by an increase in criminal damage, particularly on the Oldham and Rochdale line<\/li>\n<li>There were 223 reported incidents of anti-social behaviour (24 more incidents in May 2021 than May 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Face covering compliance remains consistently high with over 80% compliance up until June when levels fell below that level for first time and have remained at 77% on average since. There remains higher compliance in the morning peak. The Manchester Airport and Oldham and Rochdale lines have the lowest compliance (60-70%) with the Altrincham, City Centre, East Didsbury and Eccles line the highest (80-90%). The Bury and East Manchester (Ashton) line were in the middle (70-80%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report being given to the July meeting of the Greater Manchester Transport Committee Metrolink and Rail Networks Sub-committee (catchy title!) it has been confirmed that passenger numbers on Metrolink have now increased to 48% of pre-pandemic levels with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40377,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions\/40377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}