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Originally Posted by nito
Coming back to the first post, Los Angeles is a large city with a sprawling façade. An urban environment is one where it is easy to get around without needing a car, and unfortunately Los Angeles offers poor public transit options and active travel provision compared to the older cities on the east coast of the US.
Talking about massive under-utilisation, the subsidies going into Metrolink must be astronomical; 17,000 weekday riders for a network of 878km across the metro of 18.5mn people.
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For what it's worth, according to the latest figures,
total weekend ridership for Metrolink is 208,977:
https://metrolinktrains.com/globalassets/about/agency/facts-and-numbers/fact_sheet_q1_fy24.pdf
This lines up with LA County's Metro Rail system, where average weekend ridership is actually higher than weekday ridership.
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