Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

Bus at Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District carried 1,432,232 bus boardings in FY2024 at $65.34 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus San Francisco, CA
FY2024 boardings
1.43M
+9.5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$65.34
+6.7% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$58.81
+7.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
10%
-2.9% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
21.2M
average trip 14.8 miles
Operating cost
$93.6M
Vehicles in service
55
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
11.71
122.3K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every bus operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2024

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Directly operated 1,432,232 21,194,234 122,338 $93,589,060 $65.34 $58.81 10% 55

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 1,432,232 21,194,234 2,052,929 122,338 $93,589,060 $9,355,397 $65.34 $58.81 10%
2023 1,308,398 20,006,409 2,049,895 121,079 $80,128,216 $8,250,240 $61.24 $54.94 10.3%
2022 1,037,926 16,540,824 2,099,125 120,747 $61,563,392 $7,274,483 $59.31 $52.31 11.8%
2021 651,531 12,274,844 2,404,033 135,673 $59,292,822 $4,055,159 $91.01 $84.78 6.8%
2020 2,279,801 42,951,451 3,956,479 232,393 $78,022,487 $12,444,404 $34.22 $28.76 15.9%
2019 3,109,580 58,180,242 4,176,041 242,492 $76,984,587 $15,654,563 $24.76 $19.72 20.3%
2018 3,159,082 58,490,893 4,228,479 249,334 $70,563,355 $15,070,720 $22.34 $17.57 21.4%
2017 3,137,403 58,499,672 4,248,934 248,288 $69,837,631 $15,028,292 $22.26 $17.47 21.5%
2016 3,498,627 63,440,068 4,266,294 249,002 $65,085,966 $16,530,973 $18.60 $13.88 25.4%
2015 3,612,638 67,806,831 4,161,563 242,130 $61,338,768 $2,456,663 $16.98 $16.30 4%