[PRCo] Re: How many people ride transit...

[Fred Schneider]

There server did what I expected it to do.   You can download the  
file and view it.

On Aug 1, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:

> While we look about Pittsburgh and how many people ride the T ...
> something over 25,000 a day in fiscal year 2006 according to the
> figures PAT submitted to the FTA ... now think for a few seconds
> about what big really is.
> New York City Transit Authority counts over 6 million fares on a
> normal weekday in the subways ... that is 1 thousand 5 hundred times
> more than Pittsburgh.
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> They also moved 3 million more people a day on buses compared to
> PAT's 60,000.
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> It simply boggles the mind.
>
> When a friend of mine pointed out that mass transit was a "big city
> thing," I studied it to prove or disprove his point.   The most
> recent nationwide data I could get by company was the 1907 U. S.
> census of electric railways.   After I put every company's passenger
> counts in a spreadsheet arrayed by city size, and in 1907 I assumed
> that a city of 100,000 or more was a BIG CITY, I found that 80
> percent of the nickels fell into conductor's mitts in big cities.  My
> friend, curmudgeon first class from New Jersey, was absolutely
> correct.   And looking at the numbers for New York, Washington,
> Chicago ... isn't has not changed.   If anything, it might be 90
> percent today.
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> By the way, if any of you want a list of all the current light rail
> lines and subway lines in the United States, I am attaching it to
> this message.   The server should pull it off and make a separate
> link to it.   It is a Excel file so you will need Excel to open it.
> However, the April 27th version of the same list is on the East Penn
> Traction Club web site and this one will eventually get there.
>
> If any one wants updated passenger figures for all the light rail
> lines, badger me and I might just put that on this web site too.  I'm
> testing the waters.
>
> Fred Schneider
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