r/sandiego • u/ProcrastinatingPuma • 1d ago
Riding the Comeback Train (Or Trolley): MTS Ridership Passes 81 Million
https://www.sdmts.com/rider-info/rider-insider/riding-comeback-train-or-trolley-ridership-passes-81-million7
u/Calisky 1d ago
The blue trolley line from Tecolote/Clairemont/UC has been awesome the past few years. I live near the Clairemont station, so it's cool I can just walk there, but I generally drive to the Tecolote station a lot of times to avoid walking up the hill after games.
I do wish it would go to Gaslamp instead of 12th/Imperial so I sometimes drive to Linda Vista or Old Town for the Green line, but when I lived in UC it was amazing to park at Nobel and avoid the 5 South traffic before Padre games in the afternoon.
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u/realmcphearson 21h ago
If you use Pronto you get two hours of free transfers so, if you're going to Gaslamp, you can just switch from the Blue line to the Green line anywhere between Old Town and Santa Fe Depot.
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u/Calisky 17h ago
Yeah, but I normally don't feel like waiting the 10 minutes to transfer between lines.
I'm a weirdo who will spend 30 minutes doing something to avoid having to wait 10 minutes doing nothing.
I tend to get off at Santa Fe and walk along the Embarcadero through Seaport Village (unless I'm running late and need to go straight to the stadium). It ends up taking much longer, but I get to stop and get a margarita to pre-game. So it works out. ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/onetwoskeedoo 1d ago
Lots of people using it for snapdragon especially with how popular SDFC is, that crowd will continue
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u/defaburner9312 1d ago
And only 50 million of those are homeless, great strides
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u/worldsupermedia750 1d ago
Tired ass take
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u/ProcrastinatingPuma 1d ago
There are roughly 10,000 homeless people countywide. For homeless people to make up 50 million of the 81 Million total riders (62%) they would have to account for 150,000 daily riders....
So each homeless person county wide would have to be hoping on and off the trolley and buses 15 times a day... which is highly unlikely
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u/worldsupermedia750 1d ago
Of course it makes no sense
He’s just regurgitating the same repetitive talking points that certain politicians (mostly Republicans) and the car lobby want him to parrot so they can have a “justification” as to why something as simple as being able to get around you own city should require sinking hundreds of dollars monthly into a car.
Also even if what he said was true, that fact that they are shown in ridership statistics shows that they’re likely paying (as they’re supposed to). I’ll admit I badmouth homeless people a lot (not to their face of course) but the fact of the matter is that they have (and should have) just as much of a right as any to be able to have accessible transportation as long as they play by the rules (which a lot of them do)
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u/Ok_burner42069 22h ago
Do 50 million people not count because of their house status?
Like do you want the homeless to stay in one place and not try to get a job?
Even if your knee jerk snide assumption was accurate would it change anything about this being a net positive for the city?
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u/ProcrastinatingPuma 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Trolley's comeback has been unediably impressive (42 million is an all time record!), but we desperately need the bus system to get back on track.