Traffic
In 2011, 66.5 million journeys were made on the tramway system, where a journey is defined as a single boarding on a single vehicle. Of these, 28.7 million were on line 1, 19.1 million on line 2 and 18.7 million on line 3. On a typical weekday during the school term in 2011, approximately 266.300 journeys were made on the network, with 111.400 journeys a day on line 1, 82.000 on line 2 and 73.900 on line 3.
In providing this service, the cumulative distance travelled by the tram fleet in 2007 was approximately 4.5 million kilometers.
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Famous quotes containing the word traffic:
“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
“If you don’t have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?”
—John C. White (b. 1924)