Posted Mar 25, 2025, 5:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
My bad, mixed up the zeroes. TransLink's peak ridership was 451 million/year, which works out to 1.2 million/day.
Point is, even during the lockdown in 2020, ridership was at ~600k/day, and three years later it was back to seven digits (1.06 million), so unless ssi is insinuating that we have 400k-600k students/refugees/temp workers living in the metro, IDK where the "we're doomed" crap is coming from. I'd be genuinely shocked if the dip exceeds 10%.
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My figures were for Millenium/Expo line Skytrain boardings, which seemed most relevant for discussing the impact of potentially fewer student trips.
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