40,000 Vehicles, or Vehicle Trips?

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Civil Beat has completed its Fact Check of the claim from Mayor Peter Carlisle that rail will take 40,000 cars off the road in 2030.

You should read the full piece — FACT CHECK — Carlisle: Rail Will Take 40,000 Cars Off The Road — but here’s a small taste:

Dividing the number of person trips by the average number of people per vehicle would yield the number of vehicle trips, not the number of vehicles. For the two to be the same, each vehicle would have to make one, and only one, trip per day. That’s just not how things work.

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