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   Thor Lancelot Simon to ceo@iran.gov   
   Re: record daily ridership   
   26 Dec 15 00:26:10   
   
   From: tls@panix.com   
      
   In article , ruben   wrote:   
   >On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:18:21 +0000, Daniel Convissor wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> ...6,217,621 people squeezed into the subway on October 29th...   
   >>   
   >> The previous record of 6,167,165 was set Thursday, October 30, 2014...   
   >>   
   >> over 440,000 daily passengers were added to the subway system between   
   >> 2010-2014...   
   >   
   >that is not a record.  Look at the numbers from the late 1940's   
      
   It seems to me, Mr. Safir, that if you're going to claim the numbers   
   in the 1940s were higher, it'd be incumbent upon you to actually provide   
   a citation.   
      
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