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Originally Posted by chowhou
I think you're playing a bit hard and fast with the math; For your crowding math it should be 50% passengers divided by 50% total busses, but then multiplied by 50% distance travelled meaning that if they terminate at Arbutus and halve the number of busses, the 99 should be at half its current peak crowding.
Doesn't it kind of seem wrong that if busses were coming just as often as before but only travelling between Arbutus and UBC they'd be just as crowded as the busses at Commercial Broadway today?
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Not really, the 99 is crowded all the way through. We also haven't factored in induced demand: riders switching from other E-W bus routes to the faster M-Line/99 combo, or ex-drivers who switch to SkyTrain.
We also only know the numbers for westbound ridership; anecdotally speaking, the eastbound buses at UBC are nowhere close to only 50% capacity.
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