Every year, Transit releases its ridership figures in a detailed breakdown by station and by weekend or weekday. The numbers, due out in May, provide a fascinating glimpse into the ebb and flow of the subway system, but it’s often hard to wade through the numbers. To that end, Visual News has released a visual of the 2010 ridership information in map form. Take a look at that infographic and marvel at how popular the stations along Lexington Ave. are. Second Ave. Subway, anyone? [Visual News]
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Nice graphic!
Kinda wish out regular subway map looked that nice. Easy to read too!
(Don’t shoot, but…) …Better than Vignelli?
I know the focus of the diagram is the station ridership, but I can’t help but get stuck on how sloppy some bits are. The 4/5 and J/Z apparently don’t stop at Fulton, and Sutphin/JFK is J/Z only.
Yeah, and the glaring typo of “Buswick Ave” in a huge purple highlight in the middle of the map?
Another error is 138th St-Grand Concourse is a 4 & 5 stop not a 6 stop as highlighted by blue graphics box.
I didn’t realize “Rockaway Park Beach” (Beach 116th Street) was the second-lowest in the system. I always thought it was Beach 105th Street. Doesn’t Beach 116th Street have some shopping nearby? And it also has the connection to the Q35 (and Q22 for those going west of the station)
Beach 105 was excluded because it was closed for a significant part of 2010.
How can the Aqueduct only have 61 ppl? I know its not a regular stop but was it only open one day?
The figures are average ridership per weekday in 2010.
Current ridership is boring. Whats more interesting is historic ridership. The pre white flight numbers make your jaw drop about how much the subway system used to handle. http://diametunim.com/shashi/nyc_subways/
Cool. Some of the former patterns are interesting. For example, in the 1940’s, the west side IND above 125th was more heavily used than the west side IRT above 125th. That pattern has reversed. I wonder why?
Historic ridership as of when?
Since before the average person could afford a car?
And if you go back to say 1940, you’d be comparing our system to a system that included multiple elevated train lines in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx that simply don’t exist now.