DC: Metro Announces More than 800,000 Riders on Day of Washington Capitals' Championship Parade

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced that more than 800,000 people rode the city's metrorail system Tuesday as the Washington Capitals celebrated their first Stanley Cup title with a parade in downtown Washington.

Metro wrote in a tweet Wednesday morning that the metrorail system had 840,145 riders the previous day, which was the largest ridership for a single day since Jan. 21, 2017, when many of the day's 1,001,616 riders used the transit system to travel to or from the Women's March.

The average weekday ridership for Metro is 612,652, according to figures released by the transit authority in May 2017.

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