Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Mary Fetsch babbles away on Joe Rose Article...AND...
We caught the Oregonian changing its WES picture from one lonely rider to a picture with multiple riders? Now why would they do that?
“It’s a safe environment where you can be texting or be on the phone or reading a book without the stress of being behind the wheel,” said spokeswoman Mary Fetsch. “People just may be enjoying taking transit more these days.” (ya right Mary, people just love riding transit sooo much cause its so great to be packed in like a sardine during rush hour, and they love missing their connection to a bus that runs once an hour because of some incident on the MAX line.)
Now go read the article and look at the picture HERE!
“It’s a safe environment where you can be texting or be on the phone or reading a book without the stress of being behind the wheel,” said spokeswoman Mary Fetsch. “People just may be enjoying taking transit more these days.” (ya right Mary, people just love riding transit sooo much cause its so great to be packed in like a sardine during rush hour, and they love missing their connection to a bus that runs once an hour because of some incident on the MAX line.)
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| Original picture in Oregonian article |
Now go read the article and look at the picture HERE!
TRIMET RIDERSHIP UP!
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%.
SHOWDOWN LOOMING OVER FIRST TRANSIT DISPUTE
Sources are telling me that there is a showdown looming over the First Transit dispute.
Macfarlane should not be fooled into thinking that president Hunt does not have the full support of all of us regarding this issue!
I, and everybody I know fully support our president in this dispute!
I, and everybody I know fully support our president in this dispute!
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