But during the first full week of service, ridership more than doubled: 1,531 average daily passengers (if it had only doubled, it would've been 1,485), with a weekly total of 10,719 from June 18~24.http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-biz-hartford-line-ridership-report-20180626-story.html …
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Fast-forward another five weeks, and the average daily ridership had increased to 1,644 (total ridership during first six weeks of operation = 69,067). That was by the end of July. By September 7th, the average had gone up yet again, now at 1,860http://www.courant.com/business/hc-biz-hartford-line-ridership-20180907-story.html …
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Considering that the target was to hit an average daily ridership of 1,945 by next June, it appears that the line is more successful than its backers initially expected. Doubling the frequency MORE THAN DOUBLED the ridership, because of how many more trips became practical.
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Now, the line is still terribly infrequent by any practical standards--you're not really talking about frequent service if you're talking about "trips per day" instead of "trips per hour." How many more riders could take advantage of this service if the waits were much shorter?
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The current schedule concentrates trips in the AM and PM peaks, with very little service for most of the hours of the day. How many more riders would use it if it weren't tailored to 9-5 office commuters?
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The economics of passenger rail work best with *high frequency* service, despite the cost of providing it, because that's how you make rail convenient enough for millions of people to want to use it. Cost control is important--no more locomotives!--but frequency is fundamental.pic.twitter.com/IEIG688eZC
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This thread has focused on how to induce higher ridership by increasing service--but it works the other way too! What is the correct course of action if you're dealing with overcrowded trains on a commuter route?pic.twitter.com/PuFO7MHPcO
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Man I wish Caltrain's signaling and track layouts could handle going from 5tph to 10tph, but that's a massive project. On the other hand we went from 5 carriages to 6 carriages with no trouble, and should be able to go up to 7 with new stock!
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That project won't get any smaller if delayed--meanwhile more people crowd on to inconveniently scheduled trains which will eventually be too long for their platforms!
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Oh no, we're doing both! Also we're electrifying and buying a big fleet of EMUs. Almost every station will accomodate 8-car EMUs now, and will eventually be rebuilt to 12-car length by the time we get up to 12tph in a couple decades.
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