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sruel@vcn.bc.ca (Steve Ruelle) wrote:

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>: >Martin_Williamson@mindlink.bc.ca wrote:
>: (stuff deleted)

>: >around the Vancouver system.  10% is unnacceptable.
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>: Where did you get the stat?  I'm afraid it's not accurate.
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>I got this stat from personal experience.  Unless I'm really unlucky, the 
>10% no-show rate is valid as I have been all over the region.  BTW, what 
>is the real stat? --

I have taken an arbitrary day from the Oakridge transit garage which
is the largest garage in the system.  On an average weekday there are
approximately 4544.11 hours of scheduled service.  I picked a weekday
in December 95 (last month that I have all necessary figures for).  On
one day there were 72 minutes of diesel service lost and no trolley
loss.  On another day there were 369 minutes of trolley service lost
and no diesel time.

But let's be pessimistic here.  On a fictious day (bad storm, what
ever) let's say we lost 5000 minutes from this garage.  That's 5000
service minutes (83.33 hours) from a total of approx 272,640 minutes.
That's a percentage loss of 1.833920187793 % (using my trusty Windows
calculator).

I won't belabour the point but you can see that 10% is way out of
line.  I sympathize with the feeling of waiting in the rain when all
you want to do is go home.  I've 'been there, done that'.  It's not
fun at all.  Transit tries hard to live up to it's stated goals.  It's
not perfect but then again, what is?