Ridership counts for Q Line and People Mover

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I spoke with the Q-Line people a bit over a year ago about this. They claim to not pay any attention to ridership, and so do not have any up to date data available.

And being as they are privately funded [[for now),.. there is very little they are required to reveal. However,.. per contract, they are required to release ridership numbers once a year,.. and so in early May or so,.. we'll get to see the first full years worth of data.



The numbers from Sept of 2017 showed 3,000 riders a day, with about 40% of those actually paying the fare.


According to QLine spokesman Dan Lijana, that 40% [[of riders actually buying a ticket) is higher than the 32.5 percent national average of similar downtown city rail systems.

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I spoke with the Q-Line people a bit over a year ago about this. They claim to not pay any attention to ridership, and so do not have any up to date data available.

And being as they are privately funded [[for now),.. there is very little they are required to reveal. However,.. per contract, they are required to release ridership numbers once a year,.. and so in early May or so,.. we'll get to see the first full years worth of data.



The numbers from Sept of 2017 showed 3,000 riders a day, with about 40% of those actually paying the fare.


According to QLine spokesman Dan Lijana, that 40% [[of riders actually buying a ticket) is higher than the 32.5 percent national average of similar downtown city rail systems.

A transit entity that doesn't pay attention to ridership? Well that is special, isn't it?

One look at his LinkedIn and it appears that Dan Lijana appears to deal in spin. "[[he) provide[[s) communications and marketing strategy that shapes public opinion." Apologies if you've just eaten.