Reply #4: They really don't get what they're actually saying do they? [View All]

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Oh.. and about the reporters figures.. from comments and links provided by "Harpo" HERE it looks like the data the reporter used to show "doubled" may not be correct. :shrug:

Harpro
11:06AM Sep 17th 2009
Saturday ridership on the Metro one year before the 9/12 rallies = 362,773(9/13/08). Don't know where the author came up with the 202,000 number, mine is from the D.C. Metro Authority(link follows). 437000-362000 equals an attendence figure consistent with what the D.C. Fire dept. and MSM estimates of crowd size. Certainly some paid protesters arrived by bus and hog truck which doesn't invalidate the numbers, there were other events attended by citizens going on in D.C. on the same day and many of those people took the Metro too.
http://www.wmata.com/rail/disruption_reports/viewReportArchive.cfm?Archive_Date=92008
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Harpro
11:20AM Sep 17th 2009
Looking again at my link, I see where the author came up with the 202,000 ridership figure. He used the holiday weekend ridership number, when more stores and busineses are closed and more peoople are out of town, instead of the more honest and realistic number from a week later which would coincide with the Saturday a year later. They will do anything to cover up the fact they are failures.