Absolutely zero surprise here: WMATA says the Metrorail system recorded high ridership on both Saturday and Sunday. If anything, we would have thought it might have been a little higher. This weekend marked the third highest Saturday and fourth highest Sunday ridership days in the history of Metro. Riders took 713,148 trips on Saturday and 469,751 trips on Sunday, both figures that are well over 200,000 higher than the same days last year. We always enjoy WMATA’s press shop’s inclusion with these announcements of the events going on when previous records were set. Sunday ridership records are obvious: the highest was the weekend of President Obama’s Inauguration, and second and third are both Fourth of July related. But the Saturday records are more surprising: the top spot still belongs to the 1991 Desert Storm victory rally, and the second the 1997 Promise Keepers march.