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Playground going in at the new Eau Claire Plaza looks like it'll be pretty epic for climbers.

Thanks @accord1999 abd @ByeByeBaby this is great info. I’ve always wondered how these counts work and I’ve always assumed APTA’s...

That's great. It confirms what I've always been led to believe, which is Canadian and American systems use an apples to apples comparison.

Thanks for posting Accord, do you still have the link to that online site or doc?

Looking at APTAs reports I see they refer to the numbers by 'rider trips', which to me sounds the same as boardings. I've always assumed...

Question for the transit geeks :) I've always been told that Calgary's LRT ridership numbers do not include transfers from one train to...

The new validation machines won’t be able to help much for ridership numbers, as you only need to validate single use tickets or day...

I thought the reason the validators were proposed in the first place is that the automatic people counters on the doors and the amount...

Appreciate the feedback. TBH, the question arise due to a debate I saw in Reddit. There was an American who was claiming Canadian metro...

I don't believe any system that isn't gated can count trips, unless they're using number of tickets purchased/activated, which obviously...

My guess is that the only practical way for a system like CT is to do sampling of representative routes and time to figure out the ratio...

Yeah, as far as I know, boardings is the standard used everywhere as a baseline, because it's by far the easiest to produce and also no...

That page is from the 2002 APTA Fact Book you can get here...

I doubt the cost effectiveness today. But the only way to drive it down is to keep iterating and experimenting. In theory in the distant...

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