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12/11/2025
Average daily ridership on Missouri's Kansas City Streetcar more than doubled following the Oct. 24 opening of its Main Street extension.
The KC Streetcar, a free light-rail service through downtown Kansas City, logged its highest monthly ridership in system history in November at 341,922 passenger trips. That number is two-and-a-half times the ridership logged in November 2024, KC Streetcar officials said in a press release.
The Main Street extension added 3.5 miles of track and 16 stops, from the previous terminus at Union Station to the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Since the extension's launch, average daily weekday ridership rose from 4,000 daily passenger trips to 10,000 passenger trips. Weekend ridership doubled from approximately 7,000 passenger trips per day to 14,000 passenger trips.
To meet demand across the expanded system, KC Streetcar has increased the number of streetcars operating daily to seven or eight. During peak travel periods, up to nine streetcars may be running across the system, KC Streetcar officials said.