WILLIAMSBURG — L train ridership between Third Avenue and Morgan Avenue actually declined slightly — for the first time since the 1990s — in the last year bucking citywide trends, according to stats released by the MTA Monday.
While ridership across the city continues to surge and was up to the highest number since 1948 at 1.76 billion straphangers, the number of riders using L train stops between Third and Morgan avenues dropped by 1.4 percent in the last year, according to the MTA.
The biggest percentage drop was at the Grand Street stop that lost 7.1 percent of its riders in 2015 compared with the year before, about 172,115 less passengers.
And there were 504,227 less passengers using the Bedford Avenue stop, according to the MTA, about 5.1 percent less than the year before.
The MTA connected the drop in riders along the L line to a surge in traffic along the J,M, Z. Ridership between Marcy Avenue and Myrtle Avenue increased by 4.2 percent in the last year, according to the agency.
While there was a decrease in riders west of Morgan Avenue, stops along the L throughout Bushwick saw an average of 1.8 percent more passengers in the last year.
The biggest jump was at the Bushwick Aberdeen L train stop where ridership grew by 6.2 percent, adding 34,816 additional passengers in a year's time.
