Pretty! Visualization of this data is quite nice. What are you making your graphs with?
These are wonderful charts. What (and when) is your data source? Just by the numbers, these are daily trips by people from the station?
mmm graphs. what’s the source of the data?
Jhenifer: Thank you! I’m no graphic designer by any means, but they do the job. I made the charts with Pages on a Mac.
Sacha & Greg: The data comes from this document on page 24. The numbers, I believe, are taken from TransLink’s VISUM 2006 travel prediction report, which closely match the actual 2005 numbers from the regional survey.
Pages! Of course.
Daytum is another fun way to show graphs & numbers — albeit more trivial ones: http://daytum.com/
The visual really helps. There are some really pathetic figures at some of these stations. I suppose some of them have been updated, but why even bother with stops like Lake City (I’ve never had to stop there, which is why I can say that). I realize transit oriented development takes time, but geez. I have been to Sapperton a few times because there is the hospital and there was a coop car parked there. I’ve never seen more than 6 people on the platform at any given time. It will get better over time, but its a shame to see it now.
Thanks for this Paul! I’ve been looking for something like this for some time. The figures for the Expo Line stations are consistent in terms of where I’d been ranking them in my head. I’m surprised with Gateway, though. With all that development around it (and an office tower to boot), Gateway is dead last, behind even Patterson and Royal Oak.
If Sapperton was actually close to the hospital it would have better numbers. If VCC-Clark was at Clark instead down a steep hill there would be a connection to the #22 north-south bus and thus have better numbers.
Also, when looking at the numbers one must remember that transit has two functions: serve and shape. Except where stations are put in dumb places like those mentioned above, the expectation is that their existence will spur development. Sometimes that happens quickly, sometimes it takes decades, but the point is that whoever put the station there did it because it’s a spot where they want development to take place.
Er? Sapperton is a block from Royal Columbian…
Do you wish/want a railway line through the Middle of the House?
(You’d be too young to remember a comedy routine that relates such a situation.)
Wasn't that the concept of a children's book as well? That's what I remember.
Hmm, now that the Canada Line has been built, I'd be curious to see it's numbers.
Pretty! Visualization of this data is quite nice. What are you making your graphs with?
These are wonderful charts. What (and when) is your data source? Just by the numbers, these are daily trips by people from the station?
mmm graphs. what’s the source of the data?
Jhenifer: Thank you! I’m no graphic designer by any means, but they do the job. I made the charts with Pages on a Mac.
Sacha & Greg: The data comes from this document on page 24. The numbers, I believe, are taken from TransLink’s VISUM 2006 travel prediction report, which closely match the actual 2005 numbers from the regional survey.
Pages! Of course.
Daytum is another fun way to show graphs & numbers — albeit more trivial ones: http://daytum.com/
The visual really helps. There are some really pathetic figures at some of these stations. I suppose some of them have been updated, but why even bother with stops like Lake City (I’ve never had to stop there, which is why I can say that). I realize transit oriented development takes time, but geez. I have been to Sapperton a few times because there is the hospital and there was a coop car parked there. I’ve never seen more than 6 people on the platform at any given time. It will get better over time, but its a shame to see it now.
Thanks for this Paul! I’ve been looking for something like this for some time. The figures for the Expo Line stations are consistent in terms of where I’d been ranking them in my head. I’m surprised with Gateway, though. With all that development around it (and an office tower to boot), Gateway is dead last, behind even Patterson and Royal Oak.
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Thanks Paul.
Solid stuff. This is just the data that I needed!
If Sapperton was actually close to the hospital it would have better numbers. If VCC-Clark was at Clark instead down a steep hill there would be a connection to the #22 north-south bus and thus have better numbers.
Also, when looking at the numbers one must remember that transit has two functions: serve and shape. Except where stations are put in dumb places like those mentioned above, the expectation is that their existence will spur development. Sometimes that happens quickly, sometimes it takes decades, but the point is that whoever put the station there did it because it’s a spot where they want development to take place.
Er? Sapperton is a block from Royal Columbian…
Do you wish/want a railway line through the Middle of the House?
(You’d be too young to remember a comedy routine that relates such a situation.)
Wasn't that the concept of a children's book as well? That's what I remember.
Hmm, now that the Canada Line has been built, I'd be curious to see it's numbers.