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Originally Posted by Ducay
I disconcur with said theory, way more people are driving this week due to the freakish cold.
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Actually I believe SebC is probably more correct. The colder it gets, the less people bike or walk. Also, there are fluctuations in ridership due to when people are more likely to take vacation and also school schedules. University is back in this week which usually means a spike across-the-board in terms of ridership.
Here's a graph of the last 15 years of transit ridership for Calgary transit:
While some of the annual patterns aren't consistent, there's always a big drop-off in April when post-secondary school is out and then again in June when K-12 school is out. Then there is a huge spike at the start of the school year. There's also a drop-off over Christmas.
The big drop in 2001 is due to a transit strike.
All data from
APTA