Fort Hamilton Subway Station Sees Increase In Ridership; Church & Ditmas Avenues Lose Straphangers

More and more people are jumping on subways throughout the city, with the MTA reporting an astounding six million straphangers riding the rails every day in 2014. In our neighborhood, Fort Hamilton Parkway saw a jump in the number of daily riders last year, though the Church Avenue and Ditmas Avenue stations experienced a slight dip, according to numbers just crunched by DNAinfo.

At the Fort Hamilton stop, there were 5,650 people jumping on an F or G train in 2014, which translated to 119 more riders than in 2013. Meanwhile, at the Church Avenue F/G subway station, there were 9,954 riders every day in 2014 — 30 fewer riders since 2013.  And at the Ditmas Avenue F stop, there were 4,622 daily straphangers — a drop of 54 riders.

Interestingly, quite a few of the stops along the F or G lines lost riders in 2014, including 4th Avenue, 7th Avenue, 18th Avenue, Avenue I, Bay Parkway, Kings Highway, Avenue U, Avenue X, and Neptune.

Still, fewer riders certainly didn’t translate to faster trains — the F was the fourth worst line in the entire city when it came to the percentage of trains showing up late, DNAinfo reported. According to the MTA’s numbers crunched by the news outlet, the 29.10 percent of the F’s trains were late in 2014 — a jump over the 24.7 percent in 2013.

To see what ridership numbers were like throughout the city, go here.