The First Nit I'll Pick
Commuter Survey Trends
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1. The greatest increase in commuter mode share over the past 5 years is among bicycle use. In the same
period, the City of Denver has added almost 6 miles of bicycle facilities in downtown.
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I've already addressed this.
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2. Transit ridership into downtown has remained relatively constant, despite the FasTracks’ build out of regional
transit infrastructure.
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I don't know who thought that statement was significant?? Who done it? Fess up!
First Point
Transit commute share dropped by over 5% over the last 5 years but that includes BOTH bus and light/commuter rail transit and we know bus ridership has been dropping like a rock.
Context Point
There's over 130,000 employees and 58,000 students downtown for a total of 188,000.
How Many Downtown Commuters Take Light and Commuter Rail?
Forget FasTracks for the moment; how many light rail commuters come via the SW and SE Corridors? Those two corridors includes the D, C, E, F, and H lines. Thanks again to
Cirrus for taking the time to give us a good idea.
According to 'Method Two' daily ridership numbers come to 71,131.