For the Toronto figures, this was previously addressed on the Canada subforum. It seems there was an error when the previous lower figures the TTC reported to the APTA were linked trips when the APTA normally works with unlinked.
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Originally Posted by nfitz
Apparently TTC erroneously eported linked subway data to APTA for years, rather than unlinked. Hence the huge apparent ridership increase.
Now Toronto subway ridership (and bus and commuter train ridership) is listed by APTA as higher than Montreal.
I noted in another thread back in 2013 a couple of times that it made no sense that Montreal's subway ridership was higher, given Toronto trains were larger (10% shorter but 25% wider), with more trainsets and a higher peak and off-peak frequency than Montreal. I always figured Montreal's numbers were somehow escalated - I guess it was always more likely that TTC had messed up what they were reporting!
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Originally Posted by nfitz
The APTA reports have had much higher Toronto numbers for months.
Stuart Green - the senior communications specialist in media relations at TTC is the source confirming the error according to Steve Munro - https://twitter.com/SwanBoatSteve/st...77779055247360
Though that there was an obvious error somewhere seemed pretty obvious to anyone who is very familiar with both systems!
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