Table 5-5: Has your travel time changed since riding max?
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April 2005 |
October 2005 |
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Response |
Frequency |
Percentage |
Frequency |
Percentage |
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Yes, 1-5 minutes faster |
16 |
7.1% |
20 |
9.0% |
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Yes, 6-10 minutes faster |
38 |
16.9% |
39 |
17.5% |
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Yes, 11-15 minutes faster |
60 |
26.7% |
54 |
24.2% |
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Yes, More than 15 minutes faster |
90 |
40.0% |
82 |
36.8% |
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No, about the same |
19 |
8.4% |
23 |
10.3% |
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Yes, slower |
2 |
0.9% |
5 |
2.2% |
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Total |
225 |
100.0% |
223 |
100.0% |
Figure 5-1: Has your travel time changed since riding max? (October 2005)
MAX riders were asked the main reason they prefer to ride MAX. In April 2005, 72.4% listed faster travel time among the main reasons for choosing MAX. In October 2005, this figure declined to 64.3%.
In both April and October, 69.3% of respondents rated the speed of MAX travel as excellent. In comparison, only 5.8% and 12% of CAT riders rated the speed as excellent (see Table 5-6).
Table 5-6: Rate the speed of travel on max and cat
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April 2005 |
October 2005 |
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MAX |
CAT 113 |
MAX |
CAT 113 |
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Excellent |
69.3% |
5.8% |
69.3% |
12.0% |
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Good |
28.4% |
47.6% |
29.8% |
44.0% |
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Fair |
2.2% |
31.6% |
0.9% |
34.7% |
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Poor |
0.0% |
14.7% |
0.0% |
8.9% |
Wait and Transfer Time
The majority of MAX riders transferring from other routes (52.8%) indicated that their wait at the transfer point was between 1 and 5 minutes; only 11% waited 16 minutes or more. Route 113 riders were much more likely to have a longer wait: only 26.6% waited 1 to 5 minutes and 34% waited more than 16 minutes. Table 5-7 shows the responses to this wait time inquiry.
Table 5-7: For riders transferring from other cat/max routes, how long did you wait at the location you transferred? (October 2005)
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MAX |
CAT 113 |
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Response |
Frequency |
Percentage |
Frequency |
Percentage |
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1-5 minutes |
38 |
52.8% |
25 |
26.6% |
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6-10 minutes |
12 |
16.7% |
22 |
23.4% |
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11-15 minutes |
14 |
19.4% |
15 |
16.0% |
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16-20 minutes |
2 |
2.8% |
12 |
12.7% |
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More than 20 minutes |
6 |
8.3% |
20 |
21.3% |
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Total |
72 |
100.0% |
94 |
100.0% |
In both April and October, 60% of respondents rated MAX wait time as excellent (see Table 5-8). In comparison, only 3% to 7% rated Route 113 wait time as excellent. More than one quarter of respondents said that Route 113 wait time was poor, but not a single person said that MAX wait time was poor.