STOP PRESS: Auckland‘s Rail Patronage Below 10 Million
Just in from Auckland Transport. I have just scoured the latest Auckland Transport Patronage Figures for ‘as-of’ February 2013 especially for rail.
There was a time two years ago when I was side by side with the mayor while working for Veolia Transport Auckland feeling proud and delighted with the Mayor that we had hit our 10 millionth rail passenger marking a new age for Auckland’s rail network. There was even cake and a photo of the occasion somewhere too.
However I read the latest rail patronage figures this evening released by AT at their website. You can see the figures in the embed below but I bring your attention to page ten of twenty-seven – the rail figures which stand at 9,996,066 today. A slippage from the 10,900,000 peak in August 2012 to now just under 10 million.
I wonder what AT will trot out on Wednesday at that meeting with now basically half the city alerted after the figures went around Twitter and Facebook…
That Statistics Report:
And as Patrick Reynolds on Twitter said:
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@BenRoss_AKL some crazy fare dodging going on because of generous gating and policing processes.#akrail
@pv_reynolds you said it not me. I gather fare dodging is at 16-28%
Panic stations any one?
Talking Southern Auckland 