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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 18:45:46 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Dec29.035618.8820@homespace.mtview.ca.us> joshua@homespace.mtview.ca.us (Joshua Levy) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- You are mistaken, the numbers are not maximums, they are typicals.
- Source: SF Chronicle, last month.
-
- >I think
- >that the BART system had 230,000 boardings on one day in the last
- >decade.
-
- This is incorrect.
-
- >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.
-
- The MUNI number I quoted was out of date, current MUNI figures are in
- the 830,000 range (source: SF Chronicle, Dec 29). Too many of the
- popular MUNI lines are direct connects between dense workplaces and
- dense residential neighborhoods for a factor of 4 to be teneble; start
- from the financial district and you can hit any neighborhood in the
- city in one ride.
-