An interesting tidbit from today's exec committee meeting is that peak hour, mid-day, and evening numbers are getting closer to where they used to be, but late night ridership is still lagging. Admin stated that this is the second major contributing factor to the lower lrt ridership figures, along with hybrid work.

On that note, here's a couple of pics I took at around noon on Tuesday, May 21. It was surprisingly busy for a weekday at noon, and most folks seemed to get off at Churchill Square where there was something going on. For reference, this was a 2-car consist.
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Tropical said:
Since the alignment stops at MacEwan & Norquest, I would suggest that this was taken into account.
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It would have been better to surface at the quarters area and run north west across to 104th with stops at the museum/city hall/churchill, down to the arena, down to mcewan, then oliver, none of the 102nd avenue when you have Jasper avenue a block away
 
CplKlinger said:
An interesting tidbit from today's exec committee meeting is that peak hour, mid-day, and evening numbers are getting closer to where they used to be, but late night ridership is still lagging. Admin stated that this is the second major contributing factor to the lower lrt ridership figures, along with hybrid work.

On that note, here's a couple of pics I took at around noon on Tuesday, May 21. It was surprisingly busy for a weekday at noon, and most folks seemed to get off at Churchill Square where there was something going on. For reference, this was a 2-car consist.
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Really good for a midday. My PM rush hour train was equally as busy. Easily 100+ passengers on a two car train set. Then the train going towards downtown was surprisingly busy, I'd estimate at least 75 passengers. Maybe the OIlers game had something to do with it.
 
yeggator said:
If you guys think a 1 am closing time is bad, I’ve been in Rome and Naples the past few days, where (except for Friday and Saturday in Rome), the Metro stops running at 11 or even earlier (that’s how I got stranded in Scampia by myself late one night)
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Hope you're enjoying the trip brotha 🤘
 
Yeggy said:
I think a transit system is a transit system… Breaking it into parts, especially when one part of it didn't exist pre pandemic isnt fair nor possible.

The fact remains ETS was the first major North American system to reach pre pandemic numbers. Break it apart however you wish, the fact remains.
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thommyjo said:
Yes, it’s momentary. But the judgement also comes from the data released showing around 5000 daily riders currently when they estimated 30,000. That discrepancy is concerning. We aren’t talking 20k when they guessed 30k. We are talking 17% of projected.

All other Canadian cities with trains would see basically every train full at 8:15am on a Wednesday.

Yes we need patience, AND we should be asking why estimates and reality are so far apart.
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Personally I am not worried.

It takes time for habits to change and I bet the cost to operate busses at this frequency would be astronomical. Also once west ed is connected things will really take of.

I mean its pretty obvious why projections are off, we had a global event that changed societies bigly over night.
 
Barnaby said:
Sorry for your luck, city admin prefers for people to drink and drive at that time.
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What a ridiculous thing to say.
Above all, once the Valley Line stops running the 511-Owl provides parallel bus service until 3 AM.
Any railway system needs maintenance. Even a brand new one. The overnight work window is critical for this. When you considered the work window is only from about 2:00-5:00, that isn't a lot of time. It is possible with single tracking to start earlier, depending upon the work being done.
The Capital and Metro lines see a lot of snow removal work during the overnight period. I've been on the last train of the night heading north as a small parade of snow removal equipment heads south.
 
Beautiful sight Saturday late afternoon. Churchill Square full of people just enjoying a nice day in the city, a large crowd of people spilling out of the inbound Valley Line train and some of them could've been heading to the Oilers watch parties but there were lots looking like they were just coming downtown to hang out, lots more waiting for the outbound train.

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yeggator said:
If you guys think a 1 am closing time is bad, I’ve been in Rome and Naples the past few days, where (except for Friday and Saturday in Rome), the Metro stops running at 11 or even earlier (that’s how I got stranded in Scampia by myself late one night)
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You see personally, my urbanist values would be tested if a metro left me stranded in one of the worst hoods in all of Europe 💀

Hope your trip is going well tho lol!
 
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