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Maybe I need to take off my tin-foil hat - but I think this reads exactly as if somebody paid the newspaper to write a story about the "failure of mass transit"
by strommen 10y ago
Maybe I need to take off my tin-foil hat - but I think this reads exactly as if somebody paid the newspaper to write a story about the "failure of mass transit", and the writers/editors snuck in this graph as a hidden message.
- code_sloth 10y agoI'm interpreting that chart as tracking the year on year percentage increase/decrease of the population and ridership. So the population has more or less been increasing year on year since 2005, with a near zero decline prior to that. The ridership has gone through a steep decrease which bottomed out at -35% in ~2005. Sure it's been decreasing less, but isn't it still decreasing? The ridership line is flat near the end, but isn't it still decreasing at more than 20% year on year? How else can the chart be read? How am I reading it wrong?
- strommen 10y agoThe chart label of "% change since 2001" is pretty unclear, but based on the quote "ridership...has dropped a staggering 23 percent since 2001", it seems to mean "% difference from 2001", not "% change year-to-year, since 2001".