ROUTE 78 | BEVERAGE HILL/NEWPORT AVE - ripta

TABLE 3 | RIDERSHIP BY TIME PERIODSERVICE DAY RIDERSHIP RIDERSHIP PER TRIP RIDERSHIP PER TIME PERIOD HOURIB OB TOTAL IB OB AVG IB OB TOTALWEEKDAY 510 506 1016 24.0 24.1 24.1 30 29 57Early AM 65 40 105 20.0 19.9 20.0 40 41 64AM Peak 52 44 96 25.9 22.1 24.0 26 22 48Midday 211 191 402 30.0 27.3 28.7 35 32 67PM Peak 97 108 205 32.4 35.8 34.1 33 36 69Night 85 123 208 14.2 17.6 16.0 18 23 39SATURDAY 378 409 787 22.3 24.1 23.2 23 25 47SUNDAY 154 159 313 19.3 19.9 19.6 13 14 25Performance information is based on data from RIPTA.RIDERSHIP BY STOPFIGURE 2 | RIDERSHIP BY STOP MAPBy stop, the heaviest boarding and alightingactivity is at the two ends of the route, whichattests to the importance of the terminal transitcenters (see Figure 2 and Figure 3). On inbound(southbound) trips, and from north to south, stopswith the highest levels of activity include:• The Pawtucket Transit Center, with 173boardings.• Beverage Hill Avenue at Fred Street (nearProspect Street), with 32 boardings and 31alightings.• Narragansett Park Drive at Bally’s Fitness,with 21 boardings and 24 alightings. Thisstop also serves the Narragansett ParkPlaza shopping center and a nearbymobile home park. Boarding and alightingactivity is also high at other stops in thisarea (Beverage Hill Avenue at NewportRoad and Newport Road at New Road).• The stop in front of Stop & Shop atWampanoag Mall shopping center, whichhas the highest ridership activity of anyinterim stop on the route, at 37 boardingsand 48 alightings.• The eastern portal of the bus tunnel atThayer Street, with 44 boardings.• The three stops in downtown Providenceoutside of Kennedy Plaza, which all havehigh alighting activity.• Kennedy Plaza, with 200 alightings.Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc. | 4