[PRCo] Re: Kenosha Streetcar passenger counts.

[Fred Schneider]

Fantastic --- a new trolley line built to move 164 people a day.    
Thanks Jim for the entertainment.    This made the Queensboro Bridge  
Railway, in comparison,  almost look like a moving sidewalk at O'Hare.


On Oct 11, 2005, at 4:21 PM, James B. Holland wrote:

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> Sunday, October 9, 2005:
> Kenosha WI "News" columnist Bill Guida bguida at k... , who does an
> imitation Mike Royko-like column in the local Sunday Kenosha "News"
> ....... compared the projected 300,000-annual attendance figures of  
> the
> proposed new Civil War Museum to "puffery".
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> Guida went on to say "I couldn't see anyone taking the projected  
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> numbers any more seriously than the unbelievably optimistic ridership
> figures for the city's trolley (sic) reported annually."
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> That concluded his remarks on the streetcars yesterday.  (He gave no
> factual reasons for his pessimism.)
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> The City's annual figures for the current line are in the 60,000+  
> range,
> as reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which added the line is
> the only SE WI transit system to show a ridership increase for  
> 2003-2004.
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> If my math is good that works out to 164.4 passengers  A  Day  On
> Average    ----    assuming a 7-day week - actual operations may  
> not be
> 7-day in which case actual ridership/day would be Higher!!
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> Jim__Holland
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> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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