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

[Fred Schneider]

You are right --- 240X.    Funning thing, that calculate came up with  
that same crazy number twice.

On Aug 1, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:

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>> 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...
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>> 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.
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> Mr.Schneider - what abacus are you using?
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> 25,000 X 1,500 = 37,500,000
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> 6,000,000 ÷ 25,000 = 240
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> Your figures seem to be inflated by 625% don't they.
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> 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.
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> Phil
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