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TTC: Complete Subway Station Ridership Figures

St. Patrick is probably explained by AGO (it's been scaled down or totally closed in the latter period, and must be a significant draw) and Dundas streetcar reconstruction.

Can't think of anything to explain Queen.
 
The two YUS stations with the biggest drop are St. Patrick and Dundas - both on Dundas St.. The 8,000 lost passengers here, presumably from the Dundas streetcar reconstruction, seem to be part of the 16,000 increase at College and Queen's Park station on Carlton St. (the Carlton reconstruction was in 2004 - so it seems that this isn't part of the effect).

Queen is down 3,000 passengers, but Osgood (on Queen St) is up a bit, and King is up by almost 13,000 passengers, which is the biggest increase of any station except Bloor-Yonge (up just over 13,000 passengers). Perhaps with the notorious unreliable Queen streetcar service, there has been a shift to the more frequent King service?

The latest route ridership results may provide some answers.
 
Table of all Stations by growth from 05-06 to 07-08

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Although this isn't a scientific study by any stretch, you can see that new condos with 750m of the station have had an impact on ridership at the following stations:

Bayview +20% Over a thousand of new units opened up around this time

College +23% Although the impact of the streetcar track reconstruction must be taken into account, the new condos at Met, ROCP1 and north of College on Bay. Will be interesting to see next year's figures to see if Murano, Encore, and ROCP2 coming online will have an impact.

North York Centre + 15% Hundreds of new units in a large number of towers have gone up in recent years.

Scarborough Centre +4% New condos and countess new stores in this area over this time period.

This doesn't mean that all success is due to condos but these aren't bad trends.
 
Interesting that both Islington and Kipling had their numbers increase by 14% to 42,076 and 49,890 respectively. The only busier B-D stations are St. George, Kennedy and Yonge, none of which had bigger percentage increases.
 
Nice to see numbers on the Sheppard line increasing. It had the highest ridership increase at 11%.
 
Both North York Centre and Sheppard station's ridership have doubled in the past ~8 years or so. In ten years, NYC will see ~35,000 riders a day and Sheppard will be at least 90,000.

Leslie has passed Old Mill, but I wonder how far Bessarion will climb when PakPlace is done.

Ellesmere is no longer a laughing stock, it's just sad.
 
scarberiankhatru said:
Both North York Centre and Sheppard station's ridership have doubled in the past ~8 years or so. In ten years, NYC will see ~35,000 riders a day and Sheppard will be at least 90,000.

Leslie has passed Old Mill, but I wonder how far Bessarion will climb when PakPlace is done.

Ellesmere is no longer a laughing stock, it's just sad.
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You can use it as proof that losing the Ellesmere stop won't be a loss if the SRT were to replaced by subway.
 
Of Ellesmere's 1700 daily rides, most are either park'n'riders or dropped off passengers. There's maybe 100 people who would not be vastly better served by a subway extension.
 
How could they design a station that far from a bus stop? The bus stop also has no shelter and is on a narrow bit of sidewalk beside a wide arterial. It's also tucked under a bridge beside industrial lands of small warehouses and businesses. It's an afterthought of a station.
 
junctionist said:
How could they design a station that far from a bus stop? The bus stop also has no shelter and is on a narrow bit of sidewalk beside a wide arterial.
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Seconded - I was shocked the day I tried it, to get to the York Mills bus from Coxwell, rather than the usual go to York Mills Station. There isn't even sidewalk in the right place, to get to the closest stop.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if it were safety issues of placing a stop on the bridge over the tracks.

During the TTC Design Charrette, I had Ellesmere Station and we had proposed building a stairway of some sort directly above to the street, or at least finding a way to improve the safety and streetscaping of the walkway and visibility of the station from the street to better link it to the connecting bus
 
Several thousand more people would use Ellesmere if the bus connected properly, but, honestly, there isn't much of a need for the Ellesmere bus connection. People along Ellesmere can take the 133 or the 86 to STC. For people west of STC, they can take the 57 or the 21; both of these N/S routes run on roads that see absolutely no traffic and take only 10-12 minutes to get to Kennedy station - this time is actually competitive with the RT. Most of the people that use Ellesmere station drive or are driven and can do so anywhere else. Ellesmere is begging to be wiped off the map like some hamlet outside Chernobyl.
 
It doesn't help that Ellesmere's in Midland's shadow either. They're both more or less in direct competition for the same commuters, only the latter has a direct bus connection.
 
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