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Posted Mar 15, 2012, 4:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: River North, Chicago, Illinois
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CTA 'L' Trends
Here's some mid-term growth statistics for the CTA 'L' lines.
Total System Ridership Numbers calculated from branch numbers (instead of taking the CTA's official system-wide numbers). The CTA's earlier years' numbers seem to have either zero or far fewer cross-platform numbers in the official system-wide totals. Indeed, in 2011, cross-platform transfers inflate the ridership numbers by 17.5% as compared to station entrance figures. Adding up by line gives a better comparison across years.
System Total
2000: 147,194,341
2010: 173,561,960
2011: 182,212,627 (up 5.0% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 23.8%
Some on this forum have posited that the City couldn't have lost as many people as the Census said we did because ridership is up so much. However, the majority of the losses were on the South Side, and if you look at the numbers for closely, it certainly seems plausible that the South Side did, unfortunately, lose as many people as the Census claims.
Code:
2000-2011 by Side
North 26.6%
West 50.2%
South 2.9%
Central 23.8%
North Side
Blue Line O'Hare Branch **
2000: 19,336,087
2010: 21,892,551
2011: 23,577,843 (up 7.7% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 21.9%
Brown Line
2000: 12,875,518
2010: 16,294,400
2011: 17,529,237 (up 7.6% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 36.1%
Red Line North Main
2000: 32,070,998
2010: 38,772,384
2011: 40,856,785 (up 5.4% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 27.4%
Purple Line Evanston
2000: 2,959,272
2010: 3,155,103
2011: 3,236,061 (up 2.6% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 9.4%
Yellow Line
2000: 664,634
2010: 780,454
2011: 787,208 (up 0.9% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 18.4%
TOTAL NORTH SIDE
2000: 67,906,509
2010: 80,894,892
2011: 85,987,134 (up 6.3% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 26.6% West Side
Green Line Lake
2000: 5,659,662
2010: 7,992,036
2011: 8,160,292 (up 2.1% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 44.2%
Blue Line Forest Park
2000: 6,624,052 (Congress Branch)
2010: 8,468,092
2011: 9,196,945 (up 8.6% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 38.8%
Pink Line
2000: 2,483,418 (Douglas Branch, Blue Line)
2010: 4,560,865
2011: 4,823,666 (up 5.8% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 94.2%
TOTAL WEST SIDE
2000: 14,767,132
2010: 21,020,993
2011: 22,180,903 (up 5.5% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 50.2% South Side
Green Line South (including both branches)
2000: 3,351,374
2010: 3,689,060
2011: 3,837,669 (up 4.0% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 14.5%
Red Line Dan Ryan
2000: 16,512,340
2010: 16,705,352
2011: 16,700,120 (down -0.0% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 1.1%
Orange Line
2000: 8,080,569
2010: 7,851,925
2011: 8,222,990 (up 4.7% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 1.8%
TOTAL SOUTH SIDE
2000: 27,944,283
2010: 28,246,337
2011: 28,760,779 (up 1.8% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 2.9% Central Area ***
Red Line subway
2000: 12,970,398
2010: 16,413,998
2011: 16,839,383 (up 2.6% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 29.8%
Blue Line subway
2000: 6,782,031
2010: 6,995,366
2011: 7,547,816 (up 7.9% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 11.3%
Loop
2000: 16,823,988
2010: 19,990,374
2011: 20,896,612 (up 4.5% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 24.2%
TOTAL CENTRAL AREA
2000: 36,576,417
2010: 43,399,738
2011: 45,283,811 (up 4.3% vs 2010)
Increase 2000-2011 23.8% ** I'm including the O'Hare branch in the North Side instead of the West Side because it, for the most part, is ridden by people who fit the demographics of the North Side than the rest of the West Side. Even if it were included in the West Side instead of the North Side numbers, though, the North Side would still have far more total ridership than any other side.
*** Using the name "Central Area" is a little misleading. A more rigorous accounting would account for the ridership for all stations within the Central Area, for example moving the Chicago Brown Line numbers from the North Side to the Central Area, and moving the Division Blue Line numbers from the Central Area to the O'Hare Branch. However as shorthand I've just incldued all subway numbers and Loop numbers as Central Area and all other numbers as part of the line they're on. If anyone else wants to make those adjustments, feel free.
Last edited by emathias; Mar 15, 2012 at 4:42 PM.
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