Transit agencies count each passenger boarding, so the figure represents that. It doesn't mean that 43M+ individuals rode their conveyances. That's why the figure appears so misleading. David Minor wrote: > > York Staters, > > According to French's Gazetteer of 1860 in the fiscal year ending > September 30, 1858, New York State trains had carried 43,786,579 > passengers. If I'm reading the report correctly, that's a lot of > people. Does anyone else have any thoughts on the accuracy of that > count?