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Old Posted Feb 4, 2013, 6:40 AM
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Your city's daily rail ridership?

I was reading this article on Austin's commuter rail service which is averaging between 2,000 and 3,000 daily riders with higher numbers of 5,000 to 9,400 during festivals.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/l...hen-hit/nWFB8/
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Posted: 4:33 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013
Weekend MetroRail a now-and-then hit

By Ben Wear
American-Statesman Staff

MetroRail ridership has tripled since its early months in 2010, when it ran only during morning and evening commute periods and the service was seeing just 800 to 900 boardings a day. In January 2011, Capital Metro cut its base train fare for shorter trips, from $2 to $1, and added hourly train runs in each direction during the midday. Those moves doubled ridership.

Then, in late March last year, with the city’s financial backing, Capital Metro added a dozen Friday night runs (running hourly in each direction, with the last train leaving downtown at 12:30 a.m.) and 28 Saturday runs, from 4 p.m. to after midnight. Average daily ridership in October and November, including the weaker weekend performance, was about 2,500 boardings, and Capital Metro officials say that on weekdays the trains now have about 2,700 boardings each day.

In the year since, special events have continued to cause rail usage to spike, with about 9,400 boardings during the peak weekend of South by Southwest, about 5,500 in early May for the Pecan Street Festival and more than 7,500 on the Formula One weekend in November. But ridership has been much lower for all the other weekends, generally about 2,000 boardings combined for the Friday evening and Saturday service.
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