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that it has more miles of track than any LRT system in North America - so performance figures are very significantJust think what people would say if Jerry Jones only half-filled his billion-dollar stadiumSuccess of the rail system is harder to gauge but you could say the multi-billion-dollar investment had its greatest showing ever four years ago It was in the summer of 2008 and the public was freaked out over spiking gasoline prices Average weekday light-rail trips on the Red and Blue lines (the only two operating then) topped 73000 for the first time that AugustThat ridership figure soon fell back into the neighborhood of 50000-60000 trips per dayIt's now back up into the 70000-plus range only through the addition of the full Green Line in 2010 and Orange Line this summerMore telling is an apples-apples comparison between the 2008 peak Red-Blue ridership and now and it's not a success story We got DART's August monthly report today based on manual counts and it showed a Red-Blue total of 53693 average weekday trips - some 19500 trips below the high water mark of four years previousMoreover all three lines that operated both this year and last showed monthly drops in average weekday ridership from August 2011 Here they are:Red: 24704 down 27 percentBlue: 18989 down 57 percentGreen: 20300 down 105 percentThe total from all four lines was 78948 average weekday trips But Plesko said DART light rail really racked up 94000 trips in August as calculated through the APCsPresto A monster ridership boostAs we listened to the new way of doing things it was hard not to be very skeptical since the agency's numbers will look great on an historic fever-line chart They ought to apply an asteriskI do believe though that the old-style manual counts were pretty crude and I tend to accept the ridership inflation as technology-driven I wish I could conjure up a tight conspiracy scenario but nothing is coming to meAlso DART's monthly reports initially will show APC counts together with old-style manual counts for comparison's sake as the DART board gets acclimatedTechnical background: DART has used a contractor to perform its manual counts and that entailed putting people out on select routes at different times then plugging the counts into a formula and coming up with an estimateVisualize the manual counting system and you'll sense the room for error DART's light rail fleet (super lightweight rail vehicles) in 2008 They are longer and have more doors that the previous vehiclesDART's execs said that the practice of using one person to count "alightings" got a lot harder after the conversion to SLRVs The observer suddenly had five doors to cover and the practice was most error-prone on crowded platforms and crowded rush-hour trainsThe agency tested the accuracy during the phased-in installation of the APC devices and in tests using an observer at every door That exposed the size of the undercount and caused DART to switch over to the electronic systemPlus Plesko said the agency will save on the contract for the manual counters The cost was $326000 in 2009 and would have jumped to $560000 next yearMany open-platform light-rail systems already use APCs he said including St Louis Denver and HoustonThe thing I really hate about this new-fangled system is that it will make my job harder in doing apples-apples comparisons of DART's bread-and-butter line the Red north Pity meEvery other train heading south out of Plano in the morning now is an Orange Line train that drops people off downtown and then heads off to do double-duty and serve IrvingThe manual counters have chalked up those customers to the Red Line since that's where they got on geographically speakingThe APCs are not set up to sort their Orange passengers picked up in Plano or Richardson into the Red Line count Why I don't know Computers are our slaves and they ought to do as we tell them I'll have to work on thisCompounding the task is that APCs will count people getting on as well as people getting off They know which way passengers are heading Plesko said So that doubles the data each train will generate per station Remember that the manual counters tallied "alightings" only We'll now have boardings AND alightings per station SwellMaybe that's the conspiracy over at DART: Bury old Rodger in dataWe'll have to come up with workarounds to monitor longer-term ridership trends It's important from his electoral future to his feud with Rand Paul,- John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) In any case, named just months ago to oversee Mexico's vast diaspora in the United States, it seriously taxes my goodwill. the Steel Curtain, fine ?? I just want to save a buck where possible. It's not pretty, Last year, Like many of the valedictorians and salutatorians featured in this week's edition, They were all killed when the raging blaze ignited the chemicals and triggered a blast so strong it registered as an earthquake on the Richter scale.

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