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That doesn't matter. The point is to see how long pedestrian intensity is sustained. While it's likely someone at 47th and 5th Avenue may be counted by a counter standing at 42nd and 5th Avenue, it's not likely they are going to be counted at 14th Street and 5th Avenue. The idea is just to see how many people cross through at a given intersection.
And how do you stop double counting? And, were all these counts done at the exact same time across the whole city the same day?
District of Columbia is the winner here. Chi town is too
dangerous and not enough jobs in the area to go around
for everyone who needs one so homelessness is more a
problem there as well.
And how do you stop double counting? And, was this count done at the exact same time across the whole city the same day?
You don't have to stop it. The point is not to count the number of distinct individuals crossing through an intersection. It's simply to count the number of people. It's no different from counting unlinked passenger trips, which also involves a large degree of double (or even triple) counting.
He knows what it is! He wasn't able to refute anything I posted, especially my links. Chicago is fast paced but I don't know if it is as fast as DC. The whole Midwest vibe is distorts things. Who knows. Anything that "Hop On" can show you about Chicago, I can easily (in my Jake voice) pull some numbers from DC (which is 4 times smaller). For us to be comparing a city of 2.7 million against a city of 650,000 tells you alot about DC. Pound for pound, DC can hold it's own in a lot of categories.
Transportation
Education
Employment
Cosmopolitanism (I made that up)
Sophistication
Media Capital
World influence
Housing
Diversity
Well, one thing we do know, D.C. is building and booming and there is no slowdown in sight. Capital Riverfront has 8 high-rise apartment buildings under construction alone at over 3,200 units!!!!! D.C. is Dubai right now!!!!
You're still going on with this thread? No offense, but I doubt anyone in Chicago would have an inferiority complex about DC. Why would they?
You keep on talking about train ridership and "busy train stations". You have a very vague argument to begin with, then when you are refuted, as has been the case in the thread, you go back to comments about how busy the train stations are. I'm only loosely following this thread but it's pretty apparent through your arguments that you have never set foot in Chicago, or, if you did, you did not venture anywhere in a 3 mile radius from State and Monroe. Otherwise, you would not be making ridiculous claims that somehow DC has more pedestrian activity and is more vibrant/fast paced/whatever.
The reality is quite simple. It isn't.
I've been to Chicago plenty of times homey. I know the city very well. Chicago is really a tale of two cities like no other. The North side is extremely urban with great transit and density. So when most people have these comparisons I definitely understand what they are saying. But most people that post here, fail to ever mention the southside. Large swaths of it look very suburbanish. East coast cities have areas that look suburbanish as well but they are not as large. BTW, I never said DC has more pedestrian activity. In fact, I said Chicago has more. I repeatedly said that DC SWELLS over 79% in population, which is about 500,000 people and has more people using transit than Chicago. I posted links to substantiate everything I said.
You don't have to stop it. The point is not to count the number of distinct individuals crossing through an intersection. It's simply to count the number of people. It's no different from counting unlinked passenger trips, which also involves a large degree of double (or even triple) counting.
Exits do not though which is why we should use EL and WMATA exit data. Its the only way to see how many people actually exit without double counting.
According to the Chicago downtown report that Bajan posted earlier, virtually every single block in the Loop has daily pedestrian counts over 20k, train station or not. The two bridges near the Metra commuter stations record over 40k per day.
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