Template:Did you know nominations/Staten Island Ferry

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:09, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Staten Island Ferry

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A Staten Island Ferry boat

... that the Staten Island Ferry (pictured) in New York City, used by almost 24 million passengers annually as of 2017, has been fare-free for the past twenty years? Sources: (1) Fiscal year 2017 ridership from nyc.gov (23.9 million). (2) NY Times July 5, 1997 for fare abolished in 1997. "The Staten Island Ferry, which cost 50 cents round trip, turned into a free boat ride yesterday." (3) NYC.gov for still being free. "The Ferry operates between the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island and the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The trip is about 25 minutes long. The Ferry is free."
- ALT1:... that the Staten Island Ferry (pictured) in New York City, used by almost 24 million passengers annually as of 2017, is free to ride? Sources: Same as above.
- ALT2:... that the Staten Island Ferry (pictured) in New York City, used by almost 24 million passengers annually as of 2017, is the busiest passenger-only ferry in the world? Source: US DOT. "The Staten Island Ferry is the world’s largest passenger-only ferry system and the busiest ferry route in the United States with an annual ridership of nearly 22 million". The 22 million is an old figure from 2015. I used a newer figure from ALT0, source 1.

Reviewed: Emily Riehl

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 03:34, 13 March 2018 (UTC).

Article has recently been promoted to GA status and is long enough. Meets requirements on plagiarism, sourcing, and neutrality. Hooks are present in the article and sourced appropriately. I prefer ALT1, though ALT2 is a close runner-up, in terms of interest; the ALT0 hook is a bit of a mouthful. Just needs a QPQ. Sounder Bruce 05:19, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: Thank you for the review. I did a QPQ. epicgenius (talk) 19:20, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Looks good to go then. I would, however, ask that better clarification to the counting method be given; the fare section of the article says that passenger counts can't be accurately determined due to the lack of turnstiles, so how is the 23.9M figure produced? Sounder Bruce 22:11, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for approving this article. Regarding the passenger counts, the article states that optical turnstiles, like this one, are used. I guess I could go over to the terminal sometime and actually take a picture of these turnstiles, if that helps. epicgenius (talk) 00:07, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Interesting. Washington State Ferries uses more traditional style turnstiles for pedestrians, along with ticket booth sales for vehicles and cyclists. Sounder Bruce 00:48, 14 March 2018 (UTC)