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)
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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The Amherst Amtrak stop is a strange and wonderful place
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it's closed now...Amtrak runs on the other side of the river instead
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Rats. The remoteness of the stop almost had a fairy tale quality. The fact that the train changed directions en route added to that feeling
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Transit agencies need to pay more attention to bus stop consolidation. Lots of opportunity to reduce travel time and maintenance costs.
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56% of stops have fewer than 9 boardings a day!!! Can be difficult politically, but good justification (w/buy-in) and process can work.
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One funny thing though when we did this in Durham: some will call for just eliminating the zero boarding stops.
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Good idea if those stops force a deviation or have infra to maintain, but eliminating them does nothing to travel time or reliability!
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Those 1-9 boarding stops are the sweet spot. Even combining half of them (total reduction of 25%) can go a long way.
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Yes, we're in the middle of a stop consolidation effort here in Western MA as well--but pushback is increasing as more people learn abt it.
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Very frustrating; lots of people upset due to fear their stop will be cut, even tho when I ask them their stop, it's one of the retained
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It's tricky. We had a good case (vexing route reliability issue), good buy-in at top, and lots of outreach. Worked well, but time consuming.
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