Seems the downward trend is being driven by off-peak ridership nearly everywhere. Electeds who claim to be worried about this need to get busy funding weekend service at decent frequencies, unlike today.https://twitter.com/TransitCenter/status/955499555092615168 …
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Nothing more than anecdata at this point but it's something that keeps coming up in media coverage all over the places. Would be helpful for someone like
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I can get you diachronic data for weekday vs. weekend for a few places, like New York and BART.
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That said, neither NYCT nor BART has had any off-peak service cuts recently. New York's big cuts were in 2010, and BART still runs 2*3 tph.
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there may not have been recent cuts, but if Uber etc are really siphoning off transit riders, it makes sense that they would do so at times when transit is least convenient--and in doing so, they prove that there is more demand for travel at those times than providers admit
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<--this. Cuts are less relevant if the baseline is crappy service.
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I’m pretty sure that the WMATA ridership trends showed most losses at least initially were off peak.
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It's mentioned here for Boston:https://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/the-big-worry/ …
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