Let's compare bus ridership in Western MA to ridership on Boston's commuter rail
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The ridership data for Western MA is an average of a five-day sample from early March of this year (ie while college students are around)
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Also--the vast majority of bus stops report data for each direction separately: 1 train station = 1 bus stop pair, functionally speaking
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So, if the bus network were a tram network instead (with the same ridership), you'd have abt half as many stops, each w twice the riders
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With those disclaimers in mind--the busiest bus stop is the Springfield bus terminal, with just shy of 10,000 daily trips (9,920)
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Another 12 bus stops are above 1,000 (the range is 1027 to 3238), all major hubs. 21 commuter rail stops in same range (1008 to 2325)
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133 bus stops fall between 100 and 999 daily riders, only 7 of them are above 500. 97 stations in this range, 47 are above 500.
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Stops with less ridership than this aren't really viable as train stations--only 14 stations with 10-99 riders, only 1 station below 10.
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But bus stops? A whopping 719 of them fall in the 10-99 range. Only 119 of those stops are above 50.
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How about 1-9? A staggering 744 bus stops end up here. Stops in this range *average* at least one rider a day, but may have empty days too.
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Rounding out the list, there are 318 bus stops with average daily ridership of *zero*
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All told: 1927 bus stops - 0.7% above 1000 daily riders - 7% with 100-999 - 37% with 10-99 - 39% with 1-9 - 17% with 0
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Compare: 135 commuter rail stations - 1.5% above 10000 - 16% with 1000-9999 - 72% with 100-999 - 10% with 10-99 - 0.7% with 1-9
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