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

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2008 11:27:20 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] How many people ride transit...
> 
> While we look about Pittsburgh and how many people ride the T ...  
> something over 25,000 a day...
> 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.

Mr.Schneider - what abacus are you using?

25,000 X 1,500 = 37,500,000

6,000,000 ÷ 25,000 = 240

Your figures seem to be inflated by 625% don't they.

Besides, this is apples / cherry pie isn't it.  With the largest / smallest as exceptions there will always be some place larger / smaller won't there and someone carrying more and others less - just a given.


Phil