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Are you sure? nytimes recently said its doubled. (thougcomparison to 40s is interesting) > Subway ridership has risen dramatically since the 1990s, when about
by rb808 9y ago
Are you sure? nytimes recently said its doubled. (thougcomparison to 40s is interesting)
> Subway ridership has risen dramatically since the 1990s, when about four million people used the system each day. Now it is nearly six million riders each day — the highest level since the 1940
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/28/nyregion/subway-delays-overcrowding.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/28/nyregion/subw...
- Nelkins 9y agoThey said it's risen since the 90s, which is true. That chart in the middle is a bit misleading (not granular enough). Scroll to the bottom of my first link to see the MTA's own figures on annual ridership for the past few years, you'll see it's down .3% since 2011 (although has gone both up and down in the intervening years). And just for the sake of completeness, I'll counter your NYT article with one of my own ;) [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/nyregion/new-york-city-subway-ridership.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/nyregion/new-york-city-su...
- mulmen 9y agoWhat caused the spike in the 1940s? Wartime fuel rationing?
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoThe spike was in 1946. Whenever this statistic is trotted out I always wonder how they made the trains run back then but MTA can't figure out how to do it today. Their handwaving about narrow doors slowing down passengers doesn't hold water.
- mulmen 9y agoThat's interesting. By 1946 most soldiers would have been back in the states but automobile production would still have been ramping up. New car designs didn't really hit the market until after 1948. Maybe that contributed?