"Profile of demand" - eh, no. That's profile of ridership lads. Not where service has been throttled so nobody bothers any more.
Lots of talk of boardings and alightings but not RPKs, ASKs (Revenue Seat-Kilometres, Available Seat-Kilometres). Someone going from Cork-Dublin is of the same value as Cork-Little Island.
I'm surprised Limerick-Ballybrophy manages as many boardings as it does (given the stories of services terminating in Birdhill). Limerick J-Waterford looks woeful but why wouldn't it given how it has been starved - messing with the timetable, low line speed, bustitutions at regular intervals, no Sunday service.
The GDA service/density map is a bit depressing since it shows how little effort there was to take account of rail when approving development lands. Not news though.
Looking over your shoulder at what happened a year ago is grand but what we all want to know is what's the plan for a year from now, how this census will inform capital works and line continuance decisions and so forth.
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