page_title: CapeFlyer
section_title: Ridership
hierarchical_section_title: CapeFlyer / Ridership
caption_attribution_description: English: The extended platform at the Hyannis Transportation Center.
context_page_description: The CapeFlyer is a passenger rail service in Massachusetts between Boston and Cape Cod that began in 2013. It is operated by the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority in collaboration with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The service runs on the weekends, beginning Friday evenings and including holidays, between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend.
  During 2013, its first season, the CapeFLYER carried a total of 16,586 passengers, with service extended from Labor Day to Columbus Day weekend due to its early success. In October 2013, MassDOT announced the service would return in 2014 and in subsequent years, and would add a stop in Wareham, Massachusetts beginning in 2014. Year-round weekend service over the route and full MBTA Commuter Rail service as far as Buzzards Bay are under consideration.
  It is the first scheduled passenger train to Cape Cod since Amtrak's Cape Codder ceased operation in 1996, and the first direct service between South Station in Boston and Cape Cod since 1961.
context_section_description: For the 2013 season, total ridership was 16,586 passengers. Revenue was $293,000 (including the period after Labor Day), and $27,000 in advertising revenue.
  For the 2014 season, the CapeFlyer carried 12,625 passengers, down from about 15,000 for the similar period in 2013. Fare revenue was $221,000, with $93,000 from advertising.
  For 2015, ridership was 13,278 – up from 2014, but still down from 2013 – with fare revenue of $223,000.
  In 2016 ridership was 13,663, however there were only 15 weekends of service vs. 16 in 2015, so per round trip ridership was up 9.2%. Revenue was $230,000.
caption: The newly constructed platform at the Hyannis Transportation Center, added in 2014
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