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Old Posted Nov 26, 2019, 2:58 PM
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Originally Posted by milomilo View Post
Apparently GO Transit rail carries 50 million a year, and the subway 400 million. So Sweden, a country that actually gives a shit about passenger rail, carrying 250 million on its passenger railways doesn't seem unrealistic.
The Stockholm metro alone has ridership over 350 million. Urban rail generally has a much higher number of riders traveling much shorter distances than intercity rail with suburban being somewhere in the middle. The three can't really be compared to one another in terms of ridership.
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