Metrorail’s Top 20 Weekday Ridership Days
Date Ridership Event
1 01-20-09 1,120,000 Obama Inauguration
2 01-19-09 866,681 Obama inaugural events
3 07-11-08 854,638 Baseball/Women of Faith Conference
4 06-09-04 850,636 Reagan State Funeral
5 06-25-08 846,388 Smithsonian Folklife Festival/Baseball
6 07-10-08 844,530 Baseball
7 07-08-08 835,072 Baseball/Basketball
8 07-02-08 834,956 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
9 04-03-07 831,508 Cherry Blossoms/Baseball
10 06-24-08 831,464 Baseball/Basketball
11 06-20-08 829,998 Baseball/Basketball
12 04-24-08 828,973 Baseball/Basketball
13 04-17-08 828,418 Pope Visit/Soccer
14 04-11-08 828,132 Baseball/Cherry Blossoms
15 06-27-08 825,862 Smithsonian Folklife Festival/Baseball
16 06-18-08 823,516 No Event
17 07-01-08 822,931 No Event
18 04-10-06 821,283 Immigrant Rights Rally
19 06-19-08 819,979 No Event
20 06-26-08 819,722 Smithsonian Folklife Festival And then there's this:
September 12, 2009
Metrorail: 437,624Also:
Metrorail’s Top 5 Saturday Ridership Days
Date Ridership Event
1 06-08-91 786,358 Desert Storm
2 10-04-97 725,909 Promise Keepers
3 04-04-09 713,148 Cherry Blossoms/baseball/basketball/soccer
4 01-20-01 601,839 G.W. Bush Inauguration
5 07-04-98 585,354 Fourth of July celebration
Metrorail’s Top 5 Sunday Ridership Days
Date Ridership Event
1 01-18-09 616,324 Obama Inauguration activities
2 07-04-99 540,945 Fourth of July celebration
3 07-04-93 505,157 Fourth of July celebration
4 04-05-09 469,751 Cherry Blossoms/hockey
5 01-17-93 440,138 Reunion America*Perhaps there was a cat show or a monster-truck rally that day as well.
*Not even Bill Clinton's real inauguration, but a BILL CLINTON PARTY.
well, why would you be surprised?
ReplyDeleteYou expect job-working, good Heartland-Americans to ride PUBLIC TRANSIT?
the fact that NO EVENT days out-drew riders by 2 to 1 merely proves there were 7 billion people there.
Geez, it's like you don't understand evidence.
Poor jim m.
ReplyDeleteHe's very upset that I don't take the proof! he linked seriously.
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or a monster-truck rally
ReplyDeleteAt least the Bigfoot fans have a clear idea of why they're there and can articulate it succinctly.
WELL...
ReplyDeleteWELL!!! So the tea baggers are less popular than No event (who I've never heard of btw?!?!?
So just shutup.
No event
ReplyDeleteJapanese theatre really brings out the crowds.
Thunder, you are a HARDCORE masochist. Jesus, I was almost sympathy cutting after reading the responses to you.
ReplyDeleteThunder, you are a HARDCORE masochist.
ReplyDeleteI see it as giving them enough rope, tigris.
When the one wingnut starts going off about who brought Dan Tana into the discussion = paydirt.
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...giving them enough rope...
ReplyDeletethy could drown in their own spittle, don't you know, so rope seems unnecessary. (if entertaining.)
This... is... σπαρτον!
ReplyDelete"Rope", y'see.
It was funnier the way Gene Wolfe told it.
I spent 3 years of H.S. learning ancient Greek, Herr S.C.
ReplyDeleteThis all means you have typed something that looks vaguely familiar, and yet undecipherable.
Now had you mentioned Dawn and her dirty, rosy fingers...
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σπαρτον
ReplyDeleteGoogle says "wicker"
Give them enough wicker? (In my opinion, that's a very small amount.)
Give them enough wicker and they will weave full body cases for themselves.
ReplyDeleteSo I missed out the accent over the α.
ReplyDeleteI still want to know more about Rosy.
Rosy likes dark wine, herr doktor.
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Dawn came on Rosy.
ReplyDeleteJust the kind of crack I'd expect from you, SmG.
ReplyDelete~
...the crack of dawn?? (I'm confused)
ReplyDeleteRewrite: Dawn came on Rosy, later it was Sunny.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_March_on_Washington
ReplyDeleteWikipedia just can't handle the Truth. Or photos of swastikas.
σπαρτον?
ReplyDeleteWasn't that Luke Skywalker's uncle?
Uncle Owen.
ReplyDeleteShould I be ashamed that I knew that? I can even hear in my head Luke's whiny voice when he says it.
Should I be ashamed that I knew that?
ReplyDeleteObviously.
I was in a bar in San Diego once waiting for a band to play and they had Star Wars on with the sound off while music playing. My friends and I knew every goddamned line.
Sunny gets sloppy seconds again.
ReplyDeleteI was in a bar in San Diego once
ReplyDeleteEven more shameful than George Lucas awareness.
Not jedi, but weddi.
I got beaten lumpy and colorful in a bar in Las Cruces New Mexico once in the seventies.
ReplyDeleteCoulda used a freakin jedi.
Or Cap'n America. Or just a good pair of tights.
Pissed blood for two weeks...
Posted this over at SN, but this seems a perfect place for this.
ReplyDeleteA DC resident who works downtown commented on the craziness on 9/12. The last part of his comment reads:
…a colleague who happened to ride the metro into work that day…was in a car with all protesters and when the train stopped and the lights briefly went out (a not uncommon occurrence), people on the train actually started shouting that it was an Obama conspiracy. The President had stopped the train so that they could not make it to the Capitol to fight for “their” America. It was such a sad day for me, and a real low point for our country.
Well, the same morons have made a federal case out of it, literally.
Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service
Protesters who attended Saturday’s Tea Party rally in Washington found a new reason to be upset: Apparently they are unhappy with the level of service provided by the subway system.
Rep. Kevin Brady called for a government investigation into whether the government-run subway system adequately prepared for this weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.
I was gonna repost that elsewhere after I saw it. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis is a giant reality program, surely. You know, Crazy Sad Arse Island or something.
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