Numbers for the geeks...

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Its been three months since I moved to Portland and started regularly riding TriMet. Since I am a numbers guy I like to keep track of the number of vehicles I ride and how many times I ride them. Not sure if anyone really would care about these numbers except for fans, but here goes.

The routes I ride most often are: 44, 54, 57, 78, MAX, and WES.


Model Information and number:                         Number Ridden:              Most ridden:

Buses:
    
1990 Gillig Phantom 40'     63 buses                  11 Ridden                       1458 (twice)
(not all left in service)
1990/91 Gillig Phantom 30' 43 buses                 None
1992 Flxible Metro    40'    108 buses               15 Ridden                       1738 and 1756 (twice)
(not all in service)
1994 Flxible Metro   40'     26 buses                 7 Ridden                         1821 (twice)
1992 Flxible Metro   30'     10 buses                 None
1997 New Flyer D40LF     22 buses                 4 Ridden                         None more than once
1997 Gillig Phantom           65 buses                 20 Ridden                       5 of them ridden twice
1998 New Flyer D40LF    118 buses                4 Ridden                         None more than once
2000 New Flyer D40LF     60 buses                 2 Ridden                         None more than once
2002 New Flyer DE40LF     2 buses                 None
2002 New Flyer D40LF      55 buses                8 Ridden                         None more than once
2003 New Flyer D40LF      25 buses                9 Ridden                         None more than once
2005 New Flyer D40LF      39 buses                9 Ridden                         2825 Twice
2009 New Flyer D40LFR   40 buses                32 Ridden                       2936 (5 Times)

Rail Vehicles:

1986 Bombardier                26 vehicles           16 Ridden                        116 and 122 (4 times)
1997 Siemens SD660         52 vehicles            22 Ridden                        245 (three times)
2003 Siemens SD660         27 vehicles             9 Ridden                         308 (three times)
2009 Siemans S70              22 vehicles            5 Ridden                          409 (twice)

Colorado Railcar Power        3 vehicles            2 Ridden                          1001 (7 Times)
Colorado Railcar Trailers      1 vehicle              not ridden
RDC's                                  2 vehicles            not ridden

(sorry the columns did not come out properly).

As you can see from the numbers since I ride the 44, 54, and 57 most often on the bus side the buses assigned to those lines (the '97 Gilligs to the 44 and the 2009 DL40LFRs to the 54 and 57) are the ones I have ridden the most.

I ride WES once per day two or three times per week and it seems like every time I get the 1001. I have never been in a RDC before and I am hopping to ride those this Friday if scheduling works out.

If anyone knows how many of the older buses and the Bombardier cars are still in service, I would be interested in finding out.    

I plan to update this as time goes on.