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Table 22.9 Parking spaces and passenger boarding for rapid transit and light rail transit lines
(stations with parking in selected cities)
City
Year
Parking
spaces
Number of
stations
Parking spaces
per boarding
passenger
Boardings
per space
Heavy rail transit
Atlanta
1990
17,700
9
0.1
0.4
2.3
13.6
-
-
Boston
2005/2006
17,500
15
0.1
0.5
1.8
8.3
-
-
Chicago
2000/2005
6,700
10
0.1
-
0.3
3.3
-
12.3
Cleveland
2005/2006
4,000
10
0.1
0.9
1.1
12.3
-
-
San Francisco
2003
47,100
29
0.1
1.1
0.8
10.2
-
-
Washington,
DC
2000
58,200
33
0.1
-
0.7
1.5
-
16.9
Light rail transit
Boston
2005/2006
2,000
6
0.1
0.7
1.5
15.0
-
-
Cleveland
2005
820
1
1.2
0.9
Portland
2006
7,000
17
0.1
-
0.8
1.2
-
6.7
Source
Derived from Reference [
14
], p 98, Exhibit 10.5
Table 22.10 Parking spaces and passenger boardings at selected commuter rail systems
System
Spaces
Daily
boardings
Spaces per
boarding
Boardings per
space
Boston (MBTA)
—
(2005/6)
North Station
10,418
24,738
0.4
2.4
South Station
21,758
43,879
0.5
2.0
Chicago (Metra)
—
(2002)
85,563
149,187
0.6
1.7
2006
a
Toronto (Go Transit)
—
27,180
46,670
0.6
1.7
Source
Derived from Reference [
14
], p 98, Exhibit 10.6)
a
Sample of system
22.3.5.1 Commuter Rail Ridership Effects of Additional Park-and-Ride
Spaces
Adding park-and-ride spaces at commuter rail stations can increase rail ridership
beyond that anticipated from normal growth in travel demand. These increases were
quanti
ed in a 2000 study [
15
] that looked at the ridership changes resulting from
adding parking spaces to the New Haven, Bridgeport, and South Norwalk stations
on Metro North
'
s New Haven Line. The ridership results are shown in Table
22.12
.
