1,060,900 trips on the bus which is 58% of ridership!
749,800 trips on the MAX which is 41% of ridership!
43,900 trips on the Green line which is 2.45% or ridership! (although we don't know how many boarded where lines overlap)
7,250 trips on WES which is .04% of ridership (Trimet claims 22.9% increase)
Note: WES actually is falling; WES ridership in November - 8000/week. WES ridership in December - 7250/week.
Note: WES actually is falling; WES ridership in November - 8000/week. WES ridership in December - 7250/week.
Max Campos calculations:
You're calculating the weekly green line ridership by adding weekday (21,700) + weekend (24,200) to get a total of 45,900. If I followed that method for calculating total ridership for the entire system then you'd add weekday (301,650) + weekend (309,700) = 611,350! We know that the correct figure is 1,870,950, however.
It looks like TriMet's stats show "weekday" as meaning *1* weekday. "weekend" means Sat + Sun. To calculate total ridership:
301,650 * 5 + 309,700 = 1,817,950 (that's correct)
So Green line ridership is:
21,700 * 5 + 24,200 = 132,700 (7.3%)
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WES:
7,250 / 1,870,950 = .003875, which (moving the decimal 2 places) is .3875%, rounded to .4%.
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Ridership is very seasonal. It changes from month to month due to holidays, school closures etc. That is why they do year to year comparisons.
Looks like your stats for the green line + WES are wrong --
Weekly ridership for the green line:
156,900 (8.63% of total ridership)
Weekly ridership for the WES:
7,250 (0.4% of total ridership)
Total trips-1,870,950
Total green line trips (which can not be accurate because we don't know how many of those trips were overlapping with other lines)-45,900
That's 2.45% of total trips were on green line
WES had 7,250 trips, that represents .004% of the total 1,870,950 trips!
Or WES=.04% I guess
And it is my opinion that FARE LESS SQUARE rides need to be removed from MAX figures because they HAVE NOT BEEN REMOVED from the bus figures indicating DOWNWARD bus ridership!
THE STATISTICS ARE A FAKE MAX, NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT!
It's interesting how TriMet has no problem resulting the ridership from ONE commuter rail line and ONE MAX line, but why not each individual bus line?
The entire bus system is not separate from a single MAX line. TriMet has an obligation and should be reporting monthly ridership for each and every single route - each bus line, each MAX line.
And I agree - the number of "fareless riders" should be counted separately and removed from the overall results.
Re: Green Line
You're calculating the weekly green line ridership by adding weekday (21,700) + weekend (24,200) to get a total of 45,900. If I followed that method for calculating total ridership for the entire system then you'd add weekday (301,650) + weekend (309,700) = 611,350! We know that the correct figure is 1,870,950, however.
It looks like TriMet's stats show "weekday" as meaning *1* weekday. "weekend" means Sat + Sun. To calculate total ridership:
301,650 * 5 + 309,700 = 1,817,950 (that's correct)
So Green line ridership is:
21,700 * 5 + 24,200 = 132,700 (7.3%)
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WES:
7,250 / 1,870,950 = .003875, which (moving the decimal 2 places) is .3875%, rounded to .4%.
Erik:
So what did TriMet say when you suggested this?
So your telling me Max that the figures are even MORE COMPLICATED than they appear to a simpleton like me?
I think TriMet should have listed "weekly trips" for the green line (as they did for total, Bus, MAX & WES), then this confusion would have been eliminated.
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