#187 Puddinhead:
“Excellent comparisons of Sept Saturdays and of biggest days. Very necessary for rational thought processes and estimates. Also note that the metro probably counts a two way trip as two riders since they can’t know it is same person. So if the ridership is up 100k, that is 50k more PEOPLE.”
That is a valid observation.
So let me back up to my posted numbers at #182 above:
“Now this represents, given three September saturdays, two in this year and one in the last, of an increase on Saturday September 12th of at the very LEAST, 80, 000 people,(440k minus 360k), and at most, a bulge of 140k peaople,(440k minus the 300k from the day before).”
So let’s halve those numbers, since we can assume that nearly everyone who came into DC, also left the same day.
We STILL end up with a bulge of between 40k and 70k people last Saturday.
And again that only counts Metrorailers.
I still call “BullSh!T” on the MSM.
(You DROVE in? Whattayou…nuts? You should know better than that!)
