This data comes from the US BTS and the graphic was made with R

Woulda thought covid effects would have had a larger trough.

Edit: wider/longer time

Seems like people see public transport as vectors of infection so it took them longer to recover. Although i am surprised that aviation and rail have recovered 100% but bus ridership is still down 60%

How do you mean? At the bottom some modes were like - 90 to - 95%

The buses is curious. Wonder what has happened there as it's probably something in addition to the pandemic effect.

Actually a good graphic. Could have also maybe added annotations at the bottom of the trough and perhaps the most recent values. But pretty good already 😊

People finally realized riding the bus sucks.

While the busses weren't running, people still needed to get to work. So they got a shitty car. Most of those cars still work.

These are intercity buses though (Greyhound, Megabus, etc), not intracity ones. The people who used them weren’t doing a daily commute.

There may be some truth to your answer still, but it’s not quite that simple.

Please indicate in the post title that this is in the US. There are Reddit users outside of the US.

What does intercity bus mean? Busses between cities, not within a city?

I think I get it from context, but the pink and the orange are difficult to tell apart. Maybe yellow or something?

They look fine on my phone, pink is at the top and orange is closer to the bottom and they barely intersect at all.

Good graph but of all available fonts why did you choose comic Sans? I can't upvote you (but I want to!)

Yes. Buses like Greyhound, Peter Pan, and Shortline.

Guess people outside the US can’t read because it clearly labels the source at the top

The post title, not the chart

These types of charts tend to be more readable when using a moving average for daily data. A 7-day trailing MA smooths out the spikes and dips from day of week effects, though does mask specific events like holidays. Ultimately applying a MA makes them much more readable and easier to observe actual longer term trends.

If it's % Change from Baseline, why do literally none of the lines start at the baseline?

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I wonder how many municipal bus systems dropped less profitable routes because of low ridership during the pandemic?

Ska, ska! Go back to spending thousands of dollars on transportation just to avoid a possible mild discomfort.

Could be that the baseline is in March 2020. That’s about when all of the lockdowns and panic really started. It also is about where all modes cross 0%.

It’s intercity bus transit so my expectation would be some of the infection risk but more likely that people had more spending money and could use other means of travel.

Sorry I don't speak peasant

Yeah that's a good point. Wonder if someone in the know will comment on this eventually.

Lmao imagine thinking commuting with a car makes you noble or something

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Cars do! Amtrak was up almost 20%. They had a good Jan 2020. The others were less than 10% above baseline.

Rose edited it to say wider. Not deeper.

A lot of Southern states pretended there was no pandemic because Republicans politicized science as a bad thing to believe if you’re a Republican.

But what's the baseline? Nothing in the presented data states that. If you aren't showing the baseline on the graph itself, you need to explicitly state what it is and neither was done here.

Wow you downvoted me for asking a polite clarification? Nice...

I think you’re exactly right.. I would love to see this chart broken down by states (I know that’s an entire different undertaking), but yeah… States or even demographically.

Good question. I am disappointed in the extreme lack of definition and explanation on almost all the graphs in this group.

But baseline means the average daily ridership. Maybe that’s averaged over the years by month, week, day of week or calendar date. But however the baseline is determined, any given day is almost guaranteed to be at least a little different from the baseline. All of the curves start within 20% of baseline. All but one within 10%. That is normal.