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I don't believe the 1.2M number for a second. Go try it yourself, or watch the videos people have uploaded.
by kramerger 3y ago
I don't believe the 1.2M number for a second.
Go try it yourself, or watch the videos people have uploaded.
- 39 3y agoWhy would one or two arbitrary trips be indicative of an aggregate?
- kramerger 3y agoYou can quickly see the inefficiency of the whole idea compared to public transportation
- sidewndr46 3y agoIt's cars. Underground. How could you design a less efficient system? Unicycles driven by domesticated bears towing a fisher price cart?
- xnx 3y agoWaiting for a large train that only carries a few people not quite to their destinations is pretty inefficient.
- supertrope 3y agoA train or bus that only carries a few people is not really a problem. Because labor costs are the majority of public transit operating costs not vehicles it makes sense to use the largest vehicle everywhere. Using minibuses or smaller train cars just means you get capacity issues during rush hour and you can't standardize on one vehicle. You are right that public transit does not go door to door. Riders are expected to walk a block to the nearest station. If a transit system tries to replicate taxi service it would be too expensive or would really inflate waiting times for a ride.
- xnx 3y agoAbsolutely. Small capacity vehicles make no sense if they contain a human driver.
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- brookst 3y ago1.2m over two years is 1640 people/day average. It looks like there are four operational stations, so 410 people/station/day? Is that really hard to believe? It’s shockingly low for public transit but seems an easy bar to clear.
- kalleboo 3y agoThe video linked in another comment here said that she had been trying to film it for a year, but they only run the loop when there is an event going on at the convention center. Seems like that ought to depress the numbers massively.
- jakelazaroff 3y agoJust to give a sense of how bad 1.2 million people over two years is: the NYC subway system carries significantly more people than that per day.
- rayiner 3y agoThose numbers aren’t possible literally anywhere else. Silver line phase II extension carried about 1.1 million people over six months. That’s the marquee project of the DC metro system—the only thing it has focused on building over the last decade (to the detriment of the rest of the system). Boring Company’s little demo carried a meaningful fraction as many passengers as that $3 billion dollar, decade-in-the-making transit project.
- jakelazaroff 3y agoIs it a meaningful fraction? What is the theoretical daily capacity of the Boring Company tunnels vs. the DC silver line extension? Even at this meager capacity, we’ve already heard reports of traffic in the tunnels.
- rayiner 3y agoThe theoretical capacity doesn’t matter because Silver Line ridership doesn’t come anywhere near capacity.