The daily average number of Light Rail Transit (LRT) passengers increased to 13,900 last month from the average of only 6,500 per day in November, apparently thanks to the operational start of the new section connecting Taipa and the peninsula’s Barra on December 8.
The government-owned LRT operator, Macau Light Rapid Transit Corporation Limited (MLM), announced last month’s number on its website yesterday.
After the three-year COVID-19 pandemic, the LRT passenger numbers started to recover early last year, but the daily average number in any month had never exceeded the 10,000 benchmark except last month.
Last year, except last month, August saw the highest average daily number of passengers in a month, at 9,150.
The new section connects the Barra Station at the peninsula’s south-western tip with the Ocean Station near the sprawling Ocean Gardens residential estate on the north-western Taipa waterfront via the Macau-Taipa Sai Van Bridge’s lower enclosed deck.
The new Barra-Ocean section that opened last month is an extension of the LRT Taipa Line, which is now a total of 12.5 kilometres long.
Scores of locals and tourists queue at the LRT Barra Station to take their train on December 8 when the new Barra-Taipa section opened. – Photo: Tony Wong
