It's The Brian Lair Show on WNYC.

I'm Arun Venigo Paul from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

So how was your commute this morning?

For more and more of us, it might have involved actually leaving home to go to what do they

call them offices, right?

Although Mondays are not exactly the number one choice for going to the office for hybrid

workers.

For the past couple of weeks, it's been Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

On days when ridership has actually topped four million five times.

So big numbers there to talk about all of that and other transit news, including the start

of free bus rides on one route per borough were joined by Steven Nesson, Transportation

Reporter for the WNYC Newsroom and my colleague, Hi, Steven.

Hey, Arun.

So let's talk about the ridership numbers just to start.

It's up as a lot more people seem to be heading into the office at least midweek.

How did you do the numbers from the last couple weeks compared to before the pandemic?

Well, the MTA is celebrating some record high ridership last week.

And the week before that, they're topping four million subway riders a couple days in

a row.

Like you were saying, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday seem to be the primo days for ridership.

And that's high.

That's like pandemic, basically pandemic era highs for them.

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