Comment by sensanaty
15 hours ago
Seems about right? It's not 183M unique people, it's 183M people going to and from places, sometimes multiple times in a day most likely.
15 hours ago
Seems about right? It's not 183M unique people, it's 183M people going to and from places, sometimes multiple times in a day most likely.
If 1 person does 200 journeys in a year, that doesn't mean 200 'passengers traveled on the Overground' in that year.
From the point of view of the network, does it matter if it's 200 unique people or the same person 200 times? The capacity used is the same either way.
The statement that there were 183 million passengers in a single year is false.
Whether 'number of passengers' (the metric used in the relevant part of OP) is a useful metric is a separate question.