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Originally Posted by miketoronto
You have to beef up the transit service or people will not use it. Actually the fact that only just over 100,000 riders a day are carried on such a large regional rail network, shows that the system is not capturing as many people as it could.
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You have to have enough service so that people are wiling to depend on transit, but I wonder if demand would ever call for commuter rail running at 15 minute intervals during off peak times. I used to ride the R5 (many years ago) and it ran at 30 minute intervals throughout the off peak hours (usually a two car train) and it would be pretty empty. If people aren't using it between stations on the Main Line - which is essentially a linear city with most retail, restaurants, and institutions within a short walk of the train stations - I wonder if any suburban corridor would need that kind of frequency?