The Shape of the Island's Morning Rush
New York City Transit data show turnstile swipes over a four-hour
period, totaled over three days (Monday-Wednesday, September 10-12,
2007), indicating that the peak of the morning rush arrives just
before 8:00 and continues strong until 8:45. (Lines are
jagged because, at the subway, Red Bus arrivals don't coincide with
turnstile data collection points, which are six minutes apart; at
the Tram station, peaks in the jagged graph line occur when a
barrier tape is dropped to allow access to the loading platform.)
The lesson of the data seems to be that avoiding 8:00-8:45
a.m. will make your commute smoother. But the data do not
reflect the available capacity of F trains arriving from
Queens. [Source
data]
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