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The dead are not the passengers / Agency

WeGo Public Transit

Metropolitan Transit Authority, dba: WeGo Public Transit · Madison, TN · NTD ID 40004

WeGo Public Transit reported 288 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 11 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 3.39 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 73 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.06x the national rate.

Full
Events per million miles
3.39
#35 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
288
#66 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
11
419 injured, 0 seriously
Service driven
28M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 96 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • People on the road 6
  • People on the right-of-way 2
  • Waiting or boarding 1
  • Riding the vehicle 1
  • Other or unclassified 1

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 11. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 21 → 2025: 38 · peak 38

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 0 worker assault events 2015: 0 worker assault events 2016: 0 worker assault events 2017: 0 worker assault events 2018: 0 worker assault events 2019: 0 worker assault events 2020: 0 worker assault events 2021: 0 worker assault events 2022: 3 worker assault events 2023: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 1 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

5 total · peak 3 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 252
  • Other Non-Rail 36

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.