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- From: mikel@dosbears.UUCP (Mike Lipsie)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1523@dosbears>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:42:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.170039.23890@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <1hcvqdINNs7u@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec29.035618.8820@homespace.mtview.ca.us>
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- In article <1992Dec29.035618.8820@homespace.mtview.ca.us> joshua@homespace.mtview.ca.us (Joshua Levy) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- "mostly a bus system"? What do you mean? MUNI uses electric and
- diesel rubber wheeled vehicles, electric tracked vehicles, and
- cable cars (although most cable cars riders now are tourists).
-
- All trips are "short" trips -- a requirement in a city that is
- seven miles square.
-
- And your transfer factor logic is wrong. The MUNI transfer system
- allows a maximum of two transfers. If a trip requires more, you
- buy another fare and thus get counted again.
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