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Originally Posted by Cirrus
The thing that jumps out to me most about this is the West corridor. It's naturally a good transit corridor, unlike 225 which is naturally not. For West to perform this badly implies problems with implementation.
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I do get a kick out of those that treat Aurora as one amorphous blob. And I enjoy (trying to) explain that's it's a tale of two cities: North Aurora and South Aurora.
What's interesting is when you congregated on your spread sheet all of the 225 stations. South Aurora would include Florida, Iliff, Nine Mile and Dayton. Everything else is in North Aurora and only Peoria Station has respectable ridership.
I know why you don't like Aurora
It puts to shame your theory that lines that run along freeways or freight corridors are 'bad' and lines that go through neighborhoods are 'good.' Well you could add Peoria to South Aurora stations that are along freeways and their station ridership is mostly 'good' while the stations where the line
meanders through neighborhoods in Aurora have 'bad' ridership.
It's now been determined
by me that in one short year Florida Station, with no parking and only one bus route feeding into it, easily has the best ridership for stations with no parking.
Note:
RTD's list of Park N Rides includes most light rail stations and indicates the number of parking spaces (if any) plus the number of bike parking racks and bike locks. It also indicates the bus routes that feed into each station. Good stuff.
With respect to the W Line
both
SnyderBock and
mojiferous made interesting points and I suspect they are both right. I may not recall correctly but it seems the W Line started out with ridership in the 5,000's the first year. if so they are clearly growing their numbers.