Editing SamTrans (section)

== History ==
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|+ style="text-align:center; font-size:125%;"|'''SamTrans annual statistics'''
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! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Year !! scope="col" colspan=3 |Finances{{efn|Fiscal year ends on June 30. Reported in Year of Expenditure $×1,000.}} !! scope="col" colspan=1 |Annual Ridership{{efn|Cumulative annual ridership over the fiscal year, in thousands}}
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!scope="col" |Passenger Fare Revenue!! scope="col" |Operating Expenses!! scope="col" |[[Farebox recovery ratio]]{{efn|name=fixed|For fixed routes only.}}{{efn|Starting in FY 1996, insurance premiums and loss payments are included as expense credits.}}
!scope="col" |Passengers{{efn|name=fixed}}
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!scope="row"|1995<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 12,094 || 52,155 || 26.3%
| 19,363
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!scope="row"|1996<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 13,749 || 53,930 || 27.9%
| 18,895
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!scope="row"|1997<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 14,217 || 55,187 || 27.7%
| 18,455
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!scope="row"|1998<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 14,388 || 58,647 || 27.3%
| 18,991
|-
!scope="row"|1999<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 15,896 || 57,770 || 30.9%
| 17,886
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!scope="row"|2000<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 15,196 || 64,911 || 27.1%
| 17,675
|-
!scope="row"|2001<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 15,919 || 71,914 || 30.0%<br />(25.7%){{efn|name=2006rev}}
| 17,958
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!scope="row"|2002<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 14,779 || 81,995 || 28.1%<br />(20.9%){{efn|name=2006rev}}
| 17,103
|-
!scope="row"|2003<ref name="2004CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5351/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2004 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 8, 2004 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=47–49 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 15,273 || 91,560 || 44.4%<br />(22.4%){{efn|name=2006rev}}
| 16,121
|-
!scope="row"|2004<ref name=2004CAFR />
| 14,542 || 94,164 || 52.8%<br />(20.3%){{efn|name=2006rev}}
| 14,710
|-
!scope="row"|2005<ref name="2005CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5361/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2005 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 21, 2005 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=51–53 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 13,863 || 94,118 || 55.6%<br />(17.9%){{efn|name=2006rev|Revised farebox recovery ratio (FRR) reported in FY 2006<ref name=2006CAFR />}}
| 14,190
|-
!scope="row"|2006<ref name="2006CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5362/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2006 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 13, 2006 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=43; 54–55 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 16,296 || 103,692 || 19.3%<br />(19.0%){{efn|Revised FRR reported in FY 2007<ref name=2007CAFR />}}
| 14,691
|-
!scope="row"|2007<ref name="2007CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5363/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2007 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2007 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=45; 56–57 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 16,830 || 109,329 || 19.4% <br />(18.8%){{efn|Revised FRR reported in FY 2008<ref name=2008CAFR />}}
| 14,351
|-
!scope="row"|2008<ref name="2008CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5364/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2008 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2008 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=48; 51–52 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,203 || 118,756 || 18.1%
| 15,362
|-
!scope="row"|2009<ref name="2009CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5365/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2009 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2009 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=48; 59–60 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,325 || 116,563 || 17.5%
| 15,549
|-
!scope="row"|2010<ref name="2010CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5366/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2010 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2010 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=51; 62–63 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,149 || 112,406 || 18.2%
| 14,422
|-
!scope="row"|2011<ref name="2011CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5367/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2011 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2011 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=51; 62–63 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,373 || 111,128 || 18.0%
| 13,692
|-
!scope="row"|2012<ref name="2012CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5358/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2012 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=48; 58–59 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,452 || 115,269 || 17.3%
| 13,118
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!scope="row"|2013<ref name="2013CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5353/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2013 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=54; 64–65 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,808 || 114,151 || 18.2%
| 12,997
|-
!scope="row"|2014<ref name="2014CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5354/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2014, and 2013 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2014 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=54; 64–65 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 18,557 || 116,513 || 18.7%<br />(20.4%){{efn|Revised FRR reported in FY 2015<ref name=2015CAFR />}}
| 12,784
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!scope="row"|2015<ref name="2015CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5359/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2015, With Comparative Totals for 2014 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2015 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=62; 74–75 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 18,816 || 120,210 || 18.1%
| 13,159
|-
!scope="row"|2016<ref name="2016CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5355/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2016, and 2015 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2016 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=56; 68–69 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 18,078 || 118,099 || 16.6%
| 12,794
|-
!scope="row"|2017<ref name="2017CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5356/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2017, and 2016 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 30, 2017 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=54; 66–67 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>
| 17,041 || 124,979 || 15.4%
| 11,817
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!scope="row" |2018<ref name="2018CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5357/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2018, and 2017 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=November 5, 2018 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=59; 66–67 |access-date=January 4, 2019}}</ref>
| 15,742 || 131,899 || 11.9%
| 11,133
|-
!scope="row" |2019<ref name="2019CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5368/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2019, and 2018 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 31, 2019 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=56; 71–72 |access-date=January 14, 2020}}</ref>
| 15,567 || 147,782 || 10.7%
| 10,671
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!scope="row" |2020<ref name="2020CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/5369/download?inline |title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2020, and 2019 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 26, 2020 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=63; 75 |access-date=January 27, 2021}}</ref>
| 11,690 || 160,648 || 7.3%
| 8,788
|-
!scope="row" |2021<ref name="2021CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/8394/download?inline |title=Annual Comprehensive Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2021, and 2020 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 11, 2021 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=65; 75–76 |access-date=January 27, 2021}}</ref>
| 5,615 || 146,246 || 3.8%
| 4,581
|-
!scope="row" |2022<ref name="2022CAFR">{{Cite report |url=https://www.samtrans.com/media/24156/download?inline |title=Annual Comprehensive Financial Report For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2022, and 2021 |last=SamTrans Finance Division |date=October 13, 2022 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |pages=67; 75 |access-date=January 27, 2021}}</ref>
| 8,913 || 128,838 || 6.0%
| 6,957
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| colspan=6 style="text-align:left;" |'''Notes'''<br />{{notelist|13em}}
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[[File:SamTrans logo (1976).svg|thumb|left|Initial logo (before 1980)]]
Voters in San Mateo County approved the formation of the San Mateo County Transit District in 1974. SamTrans was formed in 1976 by the consolidation of 11 different city bus systems throughout San Mateo County; several more systems were added over the following years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SamTrans Bus Operations History |url=http://www.samtrans.com/about/Bus_Operations_Information/History.html |access-date=November 27, 2017}}</ref> SamTrans took over [[Greyhound Lines|Western Greyhound Lines]] commuter service on July 2, 1977; some routes were curtailed from downtown San Francisco to [[Daly City station]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune/144783828/ |first=Janet |last=Reinka |title=SamTrans to expand service over Greyhound system |newspaper=The Peninsula Times Tribune |date=June 22, 1977 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> SamTrans purchased 40 buses from Greyhound at that time, and its fleet exceeded 200 buses by 1980.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transportation History |url=http://www.sustainablesanmateo.org/home/indicators-report/key-indicator/transportation-history/ |access-date=August 2, 2018 |publisher=Sustainable San Mateo County}}</ref>

In August 2013, the agency merged two routes along El Camino Real into the single all-day ECR route with 15-minute [[headway]]s,<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 22, 2013 |title=SamTrans Upgrades El Camino Real Bus Service With More Reliable Route |language=en-US |work=Streetsblog San Francisco |url=https://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/22/more-reliable-samtrans-ecr-bus-replaces-390-and-391/ |access-date=November 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name="RD-2013-08">{{Cite web |date=August 2013 |title=Rider's Digest |url=http://www.samtrans.com/Assets/_Marketing/pdf/Final+2013+Aug+Rider$!27s+Digest.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823094321/http://www.samtrans.com/Assets/_Marketing/pdf/Final+2013+Aug+Rider$!27s+Digest.pdf |archive-date=August 23, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2018 |publisher=SamTrans}}</ref> briefly stemming a long-term decline in bus ridership that began in the early 1990s. Ridership on SamTrans buses was 52,140 passengers per weekday in November 2009;<ref>{{Cite report |url=http://www.samtrans.com/Assets/__Agendas+and+Minutes/SamTrans/Board+of+Directors/Agendas/2010/1-13-10+SamTrans+Agenda.pdf |title=Multimodal Ridership Report—November 2009 |date=January 13, 2010 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |page=8 |access-date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> by November 2017, it had fallen to 37,830 bus passengers per weekday<ref>{{Cite report |url=http://www.samtrans.com/Assets/__Agendas+and+Minutes/SamTrans/Board+of+Directors/Agendas/2018/2018-01-03+SamTrans+Agenda.pdf |title=Multimodal Ridership Report — November 2017 |date=January 3, 2018 |publisher=San Mateo County Transit District |page=18 |access-date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> and continues to decline, further threatening the agency's budget.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clark, Zachary |date=February 17, 2018 |title=SamTrans ridership dropping |work=San Mateo Daily Journal |url=https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/samtrans-ridership-dropping/article_8f6afd24-13a5-11e8-b139-6b7c04c285ed.html |access-date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> According to a route-level analysis, in 2014, four lines accounted for more than half of all weekday riders: ECR, 120, 292, and 122/28, with ECR alone accounting for more than one quarter of all weekday riders.<ref name=SRTP-2014 />{{rp|37}} A half-cent sales tax, Measure W, which partially goes to SamTrans, passed on the November 2018 ballot.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 6, 2018 |title=November 6, 2018 – Election Results |url=https://www.smcacre.org/post/november-6-2018-election-results-0 |access-date=January 4, 2019 |publisher=Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder & Elections, County of San Mateo}}</ref>