Taylor Swift is something of a phenomenon in the music world, and these days when she isn’t making records she’s probably breaking them. Chalk up another victory for Swiftie Nation, which accomplished something this past weekend that hadn’t been seen since the Bay Area last hosted the Super Bowl.

A record number of people rode Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority light rail trains to Levi’s Stadium and Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert Friday night, VTA officials said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.