South Station is the busiest stop--consider it Boston's Kawaramachi--on the commuter rail, with 21,772 daily boardspic.twitter.com/ACeeWwyT2L
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Remember that we've been comparing Boston to a city 20% of its size. A five-fold increase in ridership is a crucial hurdle here.
Is that particularly likely? Depends on how commuter rail is improved. Would it be easy? Definitely not.
But it is definitely possible, given the popularity of the existing system and the degree to which it can be improved.
Anyway--that wraps it up for this investigation. Stay tuned for investigations of other lines, profitable and subsidized alike...
...as we explore the boundaries of profitable ridership.
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