Posts tagged Ridership
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Breakfast links: New laws
DC Council resumes work; How Downtown DC came to be; Let riders’ voices be heard; Customer value should drive Metrorail; Bike lanes don’t hurt retailers; A restart of sprawl?; Trees illegal in Georgia?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: At least something’s working
More metro escalators are working; Cuccinelli to defend funding source for Silver Line; PG County Whole Foods project still faces challenges; Washington area bike thefts on the rise; Bait Bikes PR stunts?; Challenge to Alexandria’s redevelopment dismissed; Chuck Brown Park needs art; No bike or dock blocked?. Keep reading…
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Riders abandoning Metro on weekends
According to WMATA’s latest performance review, overall Metrorail ridership is dropping, and weekend ridership is plummeting. Overall there were 4.2% fewer Metrorail riders in FY13 compared to FY12, and weekend ridership in June 2013 was fully 12% lower than weekends in June 2012. Although Metro’s report claims the drop is due to Hurricane Sandy and the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s electric
Electric bikes are coming; E-bikeshare?; Huge increase in biking to Metro; WMATA didn’t talk to MoCo; DC’s broken parking meter problem; “I Have a Dream”; More parking for 5333 Connecticut?; And…. Keep reading…
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Top 10 busiest Amtrak routes
Rail use in America continues to climb ever higher. In July, Amtrak posted its busiest ridership month ever. But what are the busiest individual routes? Let’s take a look. Here are the 10 highest ridership Amtrak routes, as of July, 2013: Number 1: Northeast RegionalJuly 2013ridership: 687,331 Number 2: Acela ExpressJuly 2013 ridership: 276,477 Number… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit plans
Will anyone ride the Silver Line?; Anacostia streetcar comes into focus; Tear it down for the Purple Line?; Bi-County will make things worse; Blink and you’ll miss Logan Circle changes; More drivers go on trail; Sprawl or universities killed Detroit?; Stadiums are too pricey; Hang out with us tonight!. Keep reading…
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Watch more patterns of Metro across a day
WMATA planners have created a new ridership data visualization, a video that shows the volume at each station across the day: Keep reading…
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Watch the patterns of Metro across a day
Kenton Ngo made an animation showing how many people are entering or exiting Metro stations at each hour across the day. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to ride
Streetcars by end of 2013, probably; Where’d you come from?; Really?; The quality of buses; Should FBI go?; ANCs not audited; BART not going anywhere; NYC taxes hurt renters; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Eyes on bikes and pedestrians
MBT cameras not helpful; MD bike and ped update; Future of Georgetown; IZ update; Goodbye Examiner; More Metro data; More neighbors against mixed-use Safeway; Nerds on the train; Metro morsels. Keep reading…