I wonder about the Boston data. 2022 is when the Green Line extension opened. Did ridership go down or did they change how they calculated ridership? In the past I would have known the answer to this question!
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I want to know too!
aug 28, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
It is really hard to measure ridership on the GL because of the many ways that people pay/don't. There are (at least were) APCs on the type 9 cars, but if I remember correctly when I left (2021) there was no automated way to get the data. It required manually downloading the data from the cars
aug 28, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
And when I was there the farebox data on the older GL cars weren't regularly uploaded. Sometimes it was months behind. On buses the farebox data is uploaded during fueling but that isn't needed on GL cars. And I think it required moving the cars in the yard close enough to connect to the wifi.
aug 28, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I would ask opmi@mbta.com
aug 28, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view