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Looks like "car centric" San Diego is creeping towards the top spot in the nation ahead of a massive expansion later this year and emerging as a true LRT leader:
Looks like "car centric" San Diego is creeping towards the top spot in the nation ahead of a massive expansion later this year and emerging as a true LRT leader:
Unless I’m missing something, in total summed up ridership numbers, its bus / trolley / LRT / commuter rail overtook Atlanta’s HRT, streetcar, and bus by almost 40,000 units in 2019. Pretty insane for a city that doesn’t have HRT and only a LRT connection to the airport.
Unless I’m missing something, in total summed up ridership numbers, its bus / trolley / LRT / commuter rail overtook Atlanta’s HRT, streetcar, and bus by almost 40,000 units in 2019. Pretty insane for a city that doesn’t have HRT and only a LRT connection to the airport.
I think that has everything to do with public acceptance of riding a bus in the PNW versus the sunbelt. Plus the buses in Seattle are really good.
Let's reign in the bragging for a second. There are very specific reasons that this are happening.
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Originally Posted by Losfrisco
Looks like "car centric" San Diego is creeping towards the top spot in the nation ahead of a massive expansion later this year and emerging as a true LRT leader: https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uplo...rship-APTA.pdf
San Francisco left in the dust and Denver getting lapped here by the SD Trolley.
Despite what most San Diegans (and outsiders) think, the Trolley is critical to mobility in our region and is widely used. The continued use during the pandemic--pushing SD to #2--is simply a result of the demographics of trolley ridership. The service is critical to households that do not have cars and serves many lower-income areas by providing links to major job centers. Tourists/outsiders incorrectly assume SD's light rail is useless, but it provides mobility to the people who need it most...people without other options. That includes the people who do not have the option to telework during a pandemic. That's why ridership hasn't dipped as much relative to these other cities.
So why does this matter? Well, post-COVID this means that SD's light rail ridership will stay relatively strong and hopefully have a faster recovery. It also bodes well for the Mid-Coast trolley extension opening at the end of the year. SD's trolley could very well remain near the top for the long term (it's already #4-5 in ridership).
According to that list for HRT Atlanta's MARTA is slightly above SF's BART, so woo-hoo for Atlanta, lol.
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