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A conventionally parked car in a park and ride takes about 300 sq ft
including aisles. If station cars, like the two-seater shown on the Web
Site listed below, are parked in queues bumper to bumper, 3.5 can fit
in 300 sq ft. As observers of transit realize, many to most  park and
ride lots fill up before the morning commute period is over so the
demand for parking is not met. Station cars in queues provide for that
additional parking.

Now if 50% of the station cars can be used twice per day, taken home at
night by local residents and taken to work during the day by riders who
work within a few miles of the station (who before station cars drove
all the way to work because they could not get from the station to
their work site or because they needed a car during the day) then that
300 sq ft delivers 5.25 round trip riders per day (assuming one person
per car).

Assume at a given station 500 conventional parking spaces are converted
to station car queues. Annual ridership increases from 125,000 (500X250
days/year) to 656,250. If the average transit rider pays $5 per day for
a round trip then the annual revenue from the 500 hundred spaces
increases from $625 thousand to $3.3 million!

There is no other strategy that will increase transit ridership and
revenues like this without major capital investments in expansion of
the system.

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Marty Bernard
Oakland, California

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