Not exact matches
A companion study by the agency released yesterday also found that the average number of
passenger hours lost to delays systemwide
during the weekday morning
rush has increased by 45 percent from 2012 through May 2017, from just over 24,000
hours to nearly 35,000 cumulative
hours daily.
Ronnie Hakim, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said
during the briefing that the Long Island Railroad was running normally (although with less than a fifth of its normal
passenger load) and that the authority was on track to provide normal
rush hour service on Wednesday morning.
The results show that in Jakarta, Indonesia, travel delays became 46 percent worse
during the morning
rush hour and 87 percent worse
during the evening
rush hour, after an HOV policy requiring three or more
passengers in a car was discontinued on important city center roads.
Studies show that energy consumption per
passenger - km by road transport in Tokyo
during rush hours is about 23 times that of railways, not to mention the traffic congestion and air pollution.