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Despite having no money, a ridiculous token system, only about 3 places in the city that sell tokens and a ridership consisting of almost 100 percent annoying people, SEPTA increased ridership in 2005:
Vehicle traffic eased in center city Philadelphia while mass-transit ridership increased in 2005, counter to a long term trend, according to new figures.
Just over 1 million vehicles crossed the downtown area’s boundaries on a typical 2005 weekday, down about 5,000 from 2000 though still about 25,000 a day more than in 1995, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission data indicated.
The data said 28.5 percent of all trips in Center City were by mass transit in 2005, up slightly from 26.5 percent in 2000, though far below the 53 percent of all trips made by mass transit in 1960.
The 2005 figures increased sharply right after Hurricane Katrina, when gas prices spiked a bit. But, still: Imagine what ridership would be if they just, say, had a Metrocard-style payment system.
Mass transit use increases in Philly [AP/Camden Courier-Post]
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maybe they make more money sticking it (it being $0.70) to people with no tokens on them
Only SEPTA could take 2 years to release riders statistics that a Wharton student could churn out in a week.
The report was not released by SEPTA. It was released by DVRPC. SEPTA releases quite current performance measures, such as ridership statistics. All you have to do is go to their website and take a look.
This study was done by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission; it’s a study they do every five years to analyze all traffic (highway and transit) coming in and out of Center City.
Regardless of how long it took for the study- DMac’s point in the post is dead on- the system of paying for rides on SEPTA is easliy the most asinine thing I’ve ever seen. Should be one card-like system that works on all forms of transit- trains, buses, EL, subway, whatever. And you should be able to buy them with debit cards instead of having to have change for the machines. As Dawn Stensland would say, the whole thing is so retarded.