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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Apr 21 10:31:23 2015, in response to M train ridership up past expectations, posted by Edwards! on Mon Apr 20 16:43:13 2015. The M line's ridership has exploded immediately after the change in 2010 to make it a midtown train. The M stations had double digit increases in the 2011 stats, and continued to rise.Now Ridgewood is having an explosion of it's own in people wanting to move in, and a lot of that has to do with the M line change, as the commute has become so much easier. Bushwick had been on the rise for years even before that, but it's like a light switch went on with the 2011 stats and forward for the M stations in Ridgewood. That said, I don't know if it's necessary to have the M train run all the way to Queens Blvd weekends. While it's nice that the M line now goes to at least Essex/Delancey weekends, and would be even nicer if it went along 6th Ave too (pretty necessary), but as for sending it past into QUeens Blvd, I don't know if that's necessary. The two ends of the M line have completely different riders on either end. You have the people that get on in Ridgewood/Bushwick/Williamsburg and get off somewhere along the route in Manhattan, on the other end you have the Queens Blvd people that take the M the other way and get off somewhere in Manhattan. It's safe to say that's what most of the M's ridership does, two entirely different groups of people on either end of the line, with some, but not many taking the M from QUeens Blvd through Manhattan to get off somewhere in Williamsburg, Ridgewood or Bushwick, or people from that end of the line taking the M through Manhattan and back out to Queens Blvd. That said, it makes for a very efficient line, as it's a "peak direction" train in either direction weekdays as it rides through Manhattan. |
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