Boston.com says that new Blue Line cars will start hitting the rails in the new year. Though they are apparently three years late, the MBTA is finally happy with them. A total of 94 cars will be pressed into service by the summer, replacing the old fleet, which is about 28 years old.In the third paragraph the story says that the Blue Line is "among the busiest in the MBTA system," which is completely false. Not only is this an easily-verifiable statistic, but it's not even close (Red: 213,700; Green: 202,400; Orange: 161,350: Blue: 60,950) and anyone familiar with the T -- least of all a reporter covering that beat -- should know that.
3 comments:
Jimbo,
Not to be snarky, but where did you get your stats?
Not snarky; good question. The numbers I used are from an MBTA report on the agency's web site. It uses numbers from 2006.
http://mbta.com/uploadedFiles/About_the_T/Financials/9_Appendix.pdf
Hi, Jimbo:
Posted this similar thought over on U-Hub.
While ridership is lower on the Blue Line, there may actually be more trains scheduled than some of the other lines. I recall seeing a timetable that listed headways for the Blue Line cars as lesser than the others. This would be mostly because the Blue Line tunnel stations can't handle the larger configuration trains that the Red and Orange can. So, while ridership is lower, there may be more scheduled trains?
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