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Originally Posted by RicoLance21
While some suburbs have 28' lots, what are the feeder buses ridership like compare to buses serving inner city neighborhoods? Unless condos are being built, I don't think there would be any bus ridership increases in the suburbs on a per-capita basis. There are tons of potential for increased bus ridership in inner city neighbourhoods, and the existing major bus routes are pretty frequent already.
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I haven't seen the numbers that show an increase to the per-capita rider rate in the inner city. I'm assuming you do have this given your statement above - could you share?
Generally speaking, creating proper nodes outside of downtown does not necessarily increase the per-capita bus ridership numbers all that much the way the transit network is right now, because most people do not work downtown. Additionally, feeder bus ridership is not a good measure as many people don't take feeder buses to get to the transit backbone - in cases when indeed they do need to come to the core or points in between.
In general, to split out bus ridership based on home address is extremely difficult. If someone takes an express bus and then transfers to a different bus closer to DT, the numbers won't tell you that the second leg was completed by someone who lives 12km from the core. Given this reality, I suspect your assumptions about increased per capita ridership for inner city to be based on dubious analysis - but I can't conclude till you have presented your conclusive (or not) data.