There’s nothing cooler than transit data in a visual form. If you are like me, you will love the site I have for you today. It was created by Sha and takes NYC subway ridership data from 2006 and displays it on a map. You can check out each station and see how many people began their travels at that station. The thicker the line, the more people paid their fare at that station. You can also see the data as dots instead of lines.
As one might imagine, Times Square leads the pack. Other interesting notes:
- 17 million people started at the Main Street station in Flushing
- Beach 105st in the Rockaways only had 80,000 people use the station
- 17 million people also used the 86th street Lexington IRT station
We need more visualizations and frankly more transit data usage to both understand more about how the system works and to help passengers more effectively utilize the system.
It would be interesting to overlay 2008 data as I am sure many of the stations in Long Island City and parts of Brooklyn will probably feature much thicker lines. Imagine a global transit usage directory!
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