ridership

“DATA! Bikeshare put out last month's ridership stats and the new station is indeed being used. I flagged possible duplicates and a ride that was like 10 feet in the parking lot, but the station is still averaging 4 rides a day. For such a remote station, that's pretty darn good.”

“Situations where you need to build up ridership for future rail and situations where the funding isn't available to do rail right now . . . Every city has these.”

“On operating, the deficit for 2025 is $1.6 million, which is split between tax supported and non-tax supported. By department there were surpluses from transit ridership, land sales, user fees, and River Run tix. Deficits tho in Building Code services caused by slow growth.”

“March was the best month for Muni ridership in years.”

“Yes! There are lots of good use cases for BRT: corridors that will never need the capacity body that rail provides, or situations where you need to build up ridership to justify rail. Open BRT like Ottawa can lead to fewer transfers and shorter total travel times than rail.”

“Why do they want to scale it back? Is it not sustainable at current ridership? Loss of grants?”

“Well it did super charge ridership, which is why they needed the tunnel.”

“With the ridership numbers, is it possible? Yes, of course. Have I ever seen it? No. In fact I have never felt unsafe on the subway, day or night. And I am neither unaware nor naive.”

“And of course the CTA delivers service based on ridership instead of letting service drive ridership up so I worry about contributing to the situation getting worse because that's just how my brain works. But, goddamn, I gotta get to work people.”

“Hey, @wmata.com it’s eight thirty in the morning, prime rush hour window. Yet, for some reason, you are running six car trains when ridership is at a peak level. Why do you hate your paying customers this much?”