I found this video to be underwhelming. I'm not sure how much research he did, or what sources he used, but, a lot of what he proposes is already out there, in particular laid out in the Mass Transit Plan for 1.25 Million People. His comments on the Blatchford extension using just a contact...

I'm going to get triggered. 😂 So Rutherford says the Valley Line is getting 100,000 trips per day but ETS reported ridership as 223,000 per month. The LRT ridership is improving. No doubt about that. I just don't like how they are saying that LRT is almost at pre-pandemic levels, but, that now...

And APTA was 3,618,600 for June 2020. 🤣 The only thing that is consistent is the APTA reporting has the highest numbers and the Open Data the lowest. In comparison, that article out of Calgary I linked to gave ridership as 8,792,500 for LRT and 25 million in Q1 overall. That 8 million for LRT...

Ugh. Sooooooo. I was using the ridership for March 2019 based on the chart Kosy123 supplied, which looks like it is from a report to council. Seems like it should be reliable. Numbers seem reasonable. 2024 figures were from the data on the City's Open Data portal. I should have checked the...

I don't buy that. How has Calgary managed to get their LRT ridership back to close to 100% but Edmonton hasn't? In fact, Calgary's ridership reported to APTA is up to 14.5 million from 13.6 million in 2019 and LRT is at 8.8 million up from 7.3 million. CT reported that that was the highest...

When I started this post this morning I start off by saying: "I've been finding that trying to decipher anything ridership related from ETS is... painful." I thought at the time I had an answer to why the 2019 ridership is still quite higher than the 2024 ridership. Unfortunately, when I went...

They had probably announced the winning vendor, but, the contract wasn't signed at that point in time. The contract was only signed in late May.

First of all, and this has already been mentioned before I believe, but this extension has a lot of challenges. A tunnel under 23 Ave, the bridge over Blackmud Creek, the bridge over the Henday, and while it's not a challenge exactly, the OMF is needed and won't be cheap. However, once the SLRT...

They've already spent $70 million, and close out costs for the work underway is another $30 million. So, we'd be looking at throwing away $100 million for nothing. Not to mention other levels of government might not be willing to redirect their funding, especially if we wasted $100 million on...

And that the thing with his suggestion that the SLRT could fund two bus garages and the buses for them... but you then need to fund operating costs of those buses... all of the drivers and then the fuel and maintenance.

Cartmell aside, this extra $242 million is... interesting. I am very concerned how the hell we suddenly need $242 million extra after already scaling back the project, but, how this all came about is interesting. Checked the June 11 council meeting agenda, figured it would be in Spring Capital...

Some minor good news form the Spring Capital Budget Adjustment. It is recommended to spend $37,850,000 on replacement buses. This should fund about 47 buses at $800,000 each. This reduces the shortfall in 2024-2026 capital budget for replacement buses to just over $200 million from $240...

The entire track layout at the OMF is weird. Fortunately, trains coming online in the afternoon only head north so it's a pretty simple maneuver and wouldn't really delay anyone, and trains coming offline after the AM peak have simple, quick maneuvers. DLM is manually routed by LRT controllers...

It's not unusual to get stopped, or nearly stopped, at Whitemud Drive and Roper Road in either direction. Usually trains run fine unless they end up out of sequence for some reason, in which case, they'll end up getting stopped at a lot of intersections. They usually get sequenced again at the...

It sounds like Calgary's might be slightly better, with having some additional access Edmonton peace officers don't have. A comparison: https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=146048 Page 14 of this document goes into detail on some of the similarities and...

My numbers based on: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/city.of.edmonton/viz/ETSRouteReportCardFebruary52023-April292023/RouteReportCard For April 2023 the 73 had a ridership of 242,460. There's still some 19,000 difference between the 73 Valley Line precursor and with the line actually...

Less post secondary ridership though.

So I ran the numbers... 747 is 21 hours + about 7 hours of peak service X 365 days per year / 4 buses = 2555 hours per bus. 30 minutes all day... 42 hours X 365 days per year / 2500 hours per bus = 6.132 buses, or / 6 buses and it is exactly the same 2555 hours per bus as the current 4 buses...

Beat me to it

Yes, 4+2.