JBmidtown wrote:If these ridership numbers stay this consistent (I know they won't but just sayin') that's ~2.3 million+ rides a year.
The target is a about 980k annually. that's how far off from expectations the first week has been. Watch Sunday. With only every 18 service, if it stays above 3k it would be hard to argue it's a fad.
The second most popular stop was planned to be the least busy, it's running 20x expected demand on a weekday. That's not even in the same ballpark of a guess. That's almost three weeks of expectation in one day.
Now imagine what the hotel opening at 16th will do to numbers next month. Use of the line should jump by at least a hundred rides per day right there, on average. That's another 35k+ annually if I'm right.
The idea that it could reach 8000-13000 daily riders with the plaza segment added could be another under estimation. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the numbers just downtown by the time that expansion opens in 2022. There's just too much coming.
Remember how I said that there was no way to do big 12 with just two trains running? That I thought three was stretching it and we needed four running. I didn't think it might not be manageable with four, but that's looking to be a big possibility for next year.