Hartford CTTransit

Bus at Hartford CTTransit

Hartford CTTransit carried 2,615,439 bus boardings in FY2025 at $8.38 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

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FY2025 boardings
2.62M
-5.5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$8.38
+8% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$6.97
+8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
16.8%
-0.1% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
13.4M
average trip 5.11 miles
Operating cost
$21.9M
Vehicles in service
43
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
17.32
151K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 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, FY2025

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 2,615,439 13,374,702 150,969 $21,909,056 $8.38 $6.97 16.8% 43

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 Hartford CTTransit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 2,615,439 13,374,702 1,601,915 150,969 $21,909,056 $3,690,095 $8.38 $6.97 16.8%
2024 2,766,772 14,139,369 1,563,316 146,406 $21,458,539 $3,618,293 $7.76 $6.45 16.9%
2023 3,487,909 17,824,627 1,549,293 143,815 $21,225,877 $844,906 $6.09 $5.84 4%
2022 2,366,120 8,188,141 1,534,170 141,233 $18,704,552 $1,792,384 $7.91 $7.15 9.6%
2021 2,003,543 6,946,192 1,507,481 138,498 $17,940,558 $1,696,818 $8.95 $8.11 9.5%
2020 2,457,580 8,508,814 1,501,946 138,410 $17,516,650 $2,639,843 $7.13 $6.05 15.1%
2019 2,743,779 9,488,562 1,491,846 136,599 $16,299,441 $3,673,370 $5.94 $4.60 22.5%
2018 2,839,604 9,819,844 1,479,832 136,516 $16,164,469 $3,576,872 $5.69 $4.43 22.1%
2017 2,954,460 10,215,598 1,485,000 136,221 $16,930,702 $3,836,150 $5.73 $4.43 22.7%
2016 3,338,000 11,746,620 1,508,437 137,226 $16,065,295 $4,101,146 $4.81 $3.58 25.5%
2015 3,445,079 12,123,288 1,495,568 136,825 $15,046,945 $4,355,003 $4.37 $3.10 28.9%