BART reported having its highest daily ridership total since before the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, the day of the last Oakland A’s baseball game ever held at the Coliseum.

There were 224,721 exits reported from BART stations Thursday, the third straight day that ridership on the train system topped 200,000 exits. The A’s last three games at the Coliseum were Tuesday through Thursday and drew huge crowds making their last trip to see baseball at the ballpark before the team’s move to West Sacramento next year.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.