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MBTA Commuter Rail ridership

I see you've taken up the task of updating MBTA Commuter Rail ridership. However, I have some requests for you to maintain the existing formatting of the articles:

• Please use the weekday average boardings, not the annual average. Daily boardings are a much more comprehensible measure.
• Please use "Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority" rather than the abbreviation "MBTA" in the publisher field
• Please use the date of publication rather than the date the counts were taken - this data was not actually released in 2018.
• Many articles use the Bluebook source for other information. For those articles, please take care not to delete the main instance of the citation.

Thank you, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:46, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, but the number I'm using includes the average boardings and alightings combined. Is that okay? - JohnT122

No, your methodology is fundamentally flawed. You seem to be adding the boardings and alightings (thus double-counting each actual rider) then multiplying by 365 (under the mistaken assumption that weekend ridership equals weekday ridership). The number used should be total daily boardings (the sum of inbound boardings and outbound boardings), as many stations have significant bidirectional ridership. That method is used by almost every agency in the US except for Amtrak, which uses the double-counted annual figure to inflate their numbers. I am in the process of updating the numbers using this methodology and {{MBTA CR 2018}} to simplify the citation, and should be done shortly. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:08, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks again for the criticism, but it looks like my method and your method are different. - JohnT122