The Light Rapid Transit (LRT) recorded a total of 9.62 million passengers in 2025, an increase of 79 percent from 2024, according to the LRT operator’s 2025 annual report published on its website on Wednesday.
This represented a daily average of 26,356 passengers last year.
In comparison, Macau recorded 231 million public bus passengers in 2025, or a daily average of 636,000, an increase of 1.81 percent from 2024, according to official statistics.
The LRT 2025 annual report notes that the LRT recorded a daily average of 30,600 passengers in September last year, breaking the 30,000 benchmark for the first time since passengers started having to pay in early 2020.
The LRT recorded a daily average of 33,000 passengers in December 2019 when the system started operating.
According to the LRT website, the system recorded a daily average of 33,100 passengers in February this year, the highest since the system’s operational start.
The LRT 2025 annual report also notes that Hengqin Station had the highest number of passengers last year.
Govt financial support makes up 87.5 pct of total receipts
The annual report also said that the LRT operator recorded a total revenue of 686,554,234 patacas in 2025, a decrease of 11 percent from 2024. According to the report, the drop was primarily due to a decline in financial support from the government.
According to the report, ticket revenues rose 56 percent year on year to 43,206,358 patacas in 2025.
Despite a significant increase in ticket revenues, government financial support still accounted for 87.5 percent of the LRT operator’s total revenues last year.
The LRT operator is known as MLM in short.
The annual report said that the LRT operator recorded a total expenditure of 643,542,486 patacas in 2025, a decrease of 14 percent from 2024. According to the report, the drop was primarily due to the fact that the system was fully operated by MLM in 2025, a change from previously when the operation was outsourced to Hong Kong’s MTR.
A man is waiting for the approaching LRT train at Lotus Station in Cotai last week. Lotus Station is a station of both the Taipa Line and the Hengqin Line, serving as an interchange enabling passengers to transfer between the two lines. – Photo: Tony Wong
