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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:58:06 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <u915dm4@sgi.sgi.com> jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
- >
- >It still hasn't been established whether that 770000 number is boardings,
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- That's 830,000, the 770000 number I quoted was outdated.
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- >or trips. Most transit agencies just count boardings. MTC has counted
- >both in their studies. So if you pay a fare and transfer twice, you
- >are counted three times.
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- But in MUNI`s case it really doesn't matter so much, because one
- (usually electric) vehicle gets you from the Financial District to any
- neighborhood, and the neighboorhoods are small enough that the walk to
- your apartment or house is a few blocks. When 800,000 people live in
- 49 square miles, the need for transfers goes way down.
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