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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Jul 5 00:14:57 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sat Jul 3 21:49:39 2010. OK, I did some analysis on Red Line ridership using the data on the WMATA site. All of the numbers referenced in this post are average weekday boardings from May 2009.Here are the totals for each Red Line station ranked in order from most boardings to fewest: Station Name Ridership Union Station 34465 Metro Center 30569 Gallery Place 25747 Farragut North 25311 Dupont Circle 23561 Shady Grove 14107 Silver Spring 14077 Bethesda 10730 Judiciary Square 10369 Friendship Heights 9596 Woodley Park 8292 Tenleytown 7290 Van Ness 7276 Fort Totten 7198 Brookland 7158 Takoma 6811 Rhode Island Avenue 6121 Glenmont 5996 Grosvenor 5948 Medical Center 5627 New York Avenue 5229 Rockville 4880 Cleveland Park 4807 Wheaton 4653 Twinbrook 4628 White Flint 4096 Forest Glen 2514 TOTAL 297056 For the purpose of this analysis, I've defined "downtown" as being the stations from New York Avenue through Dupont Circle inclusive. These 7 stations account for 52.26% of the daily weekday boardings on the Red Line. The busiest station outside of downtown is Shady Grove, the 6th busiest on the line out of the 27 stations. With 30 fewer boardings than Shady Grove, Silver Spring is ranked 7th. Glenmont is ranked 18th, Wheaton is ranked 24th, and Forest Glen has the fewest boardings out of any station on the entire line. For comparison purposes, Twinbrook and White Flint rank 25th and 26th, and Rockville is 22nd. The Glenmont to Forest Glen section of the line inclusive accounts for 4.43% of station boardings. Shady Grove to White Flint inclusive accounts for nearly double that amount, 9.33%. Silver Spring to Rhode Island Avenue inclusive accounts for 13.92% and Woodley Park to Grosvenor accounts for 20.05%. As I said earlier, New York Avenue to Dupont Circle accounts for 52.26%. Looking at larger segments of the line, the western side of the Red Line (Woodley Park to Shady Grove inclusive) accounts for 29.38% of the boardings, while the eastern side only accounts for 18.35%, meaning that the western side is busier than the eastern side. I can provide other numbers on request, but based on this data and the car assignments (and there are no additional cars that could be assigned to the Red Line without cutting service on some other line), I believe that the Red Line turnbacks are justified on both ends of the Red Line, and that the Shady Grove side should get the turnbacks eliminated before the Glenmont side does. What do others think? |
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