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Originally Posted by Doady
He's talking about ridership of a specific line, not the entire system. The ridership of the entire GRT system 2023 or 2024 doesn't mean anything.
Yes, HSR system ridership will be lower than GRT while its operations are being hampered by continuing LRT construction and the striking bus drivers last month. No surprise.
And no, GRT's ridership is probably not going to grow by 44% in 2024. You can see Mississauga's ridership grew by 25% in 2023 on pace to reach 45.7 million. I am going to take a very wild guess and say that Mississauga's ridership probably will not reach 56.0 million in 2024, even if the LRT opens next year.
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People are talking about a proposed Hamilton LRT line which won't open until 2030..2031..(who actually knows) vs an already built & operating line in Kitchener. They're comparing actual 2023 Kitchener LRT ridership vs expected 2031(?) Hamilton LRT ridership and then concluding the latter's going to be double. Why not compare expected 2031 vs expected 2031 ridership ... that would seem to make a lot more sense. Same thing goes for frequency.
GRT had a transit strike during 2023 as well.
I'll repost
GRT's monthly #s. Instead of just dismissing my crude FTM estimation, please give me an estimate/methodology of what you think the forward 12 month total looks like.
["The September Multiplier"]
I took the total of Sept 2022 - Aug 2023 = 23.36 million
Divided by Sept 2022 (2.00 million) = 11.68
Multiplied by Sept 2023 (2.89 million) = 33.75 million (Sept 2023 - Aug 2024 crude estimate)
