15 Jul
2002
15 Jul
'02
5:08 a.m.
Tom embarrasses himself. Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: C Kenneth Orski <korski(a)erols.com>
To: <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net>
Cc: Cox, Wendell <wcox(a)publicpurpose.com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:18 PM
Subject: [CTPP] [Fwd: Re: "The Truth About Transit", Baltimore Sun, July 12,
2002]
Here is a colleague of mine challenging the validity
of the 2000
Census data on transit ridership. I am not a statistician and have no
way of assessing the soundness of his claims. Can anybody help me?
Ken Orski
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: "The Truth About Transit", Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2002
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:48:00 -0400
From:"Tom Downs" <tdowns(a)ursp.umd.edu>
To: <korski(a)erols.com>
C Kenneth Orski wrote:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.transit12jul12.story?co
ll=bal%2Doped%2Dheadlines
You should read this... and ponder
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I would be glad to ponder the following:The survey data, census long
form, is increasingly viewed as biased in its results (response rates of
less than 20% in many regions, language biased in an age of immigrants,
poverty biased, and generally reflective of a white middle class data
set)The data does not reflect the fact that journey to work is about 20%
of trips and declining. Do we care about the explosion in "other trips"
and transit's role in them? We also have no clue as to what is happening
to pedestrian trips...Tom Downs
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