Interesting transportation things

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by jmecklenborg

The NYC metro area has over 20 million people, meaning if it were a state, it would be the third-largest state behind California and Texas and...ahead of New York.

And? It doesn't have as many transit riders are the rest of the US and Canada combined. Adding Canada adds a lot of additional transit users.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

And? It doesn't have as many transit riders are the rest of the US and Canada combined. Adding Canada adds a lot of additional transit users.

Maybe not, but a quick back of the envelope math from various wiki pages on ridership of commuter, heavy, and light rail systems plus bus ridership tells me NYC metropolitan area transit systems comprise roughly 1/3 of all transit ridership across both the United States and Canada. That’s still insane.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Maybe not, but a quick back of the envelope math from various wiki pages on ridership of commuter, heavy, and light rail systems plus bus ridership tells me NYC metropolitan area transit systems comprise roughly 1/3 of all transit ridership across both the United States and Canada. That’s still insane.

Yeah that would be about right. Hopefully the rest of the US will start carrying its ridership weight at some point.

[Busy Bee]

If only the United States had been settled in the 16th century, independent in the 17th century, rapidly developed in the 18th century and cohesively built out by the 19th century...

[jmecklenborg]

The Cincinnati Reds are perhaps the only pro sports team in the world with a dedicated river barge:
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