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- From: joshua@homespace.mtview.ca.us (Joshua Levy)
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.035618.8820@homespace.mtview.ca.us>
- Organization: Expert Support Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:56:18 GMT
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- In article <1hcvqdINNs7u@agate.berkeley.edu> lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro) writes:
- >
- >I didn't include AC Transit, GGT, SSCTA, ... if that's not
- >overcompensation, what is? Face it, your 3% number needs a detailed
- >justification; a simple reality check says its bogus.
-
- The 3% number is for Santa Clara County (that is where I live and work).
- I should have made that more clear; the 3% number is _not_ for the
- whole Bay Area.
-
- Your analysis contains two problems, which have not yet been discussed.
- First, you BART number are maximums, not averages. I think
- that the BART system had 230,000 boardings on one day in the last
- decade. The more normal number is 190-210K, as I remember. I don't
- know about your MUNI numbers. The open question with the MUNI number
- is how they handle transfers. Since MUNI is mostly a bus system, it
- will likely have lots of transfers, if these are all counted in your
- 770,000 number, then the number of riders might be less than that
- by a factor of 4 or 6, not just 2.
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@homespace.mtview.ca.us)
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