CplKlinger
Senior Member
They'll also accept e-bikes and children's bikes!
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TAS
Senior Member
Principe and Elliott proposed to cancel funding for bike racks. Other new councillors - Morgan, Clarke, Parmar voted against that proposal along with rest of council.
EdwardEdm
Active Member
The operating budget increase for the 25 growth buses was approved this afternoon.
There was also a $3 million increase to the DATS budget approved, with funding from the EPCOR dividend.
There was also a $3 million increase to the DATS budget approved, with funding from the EPCOR dividend.
EdwardEdm
Active Member
Well, there's good new and bad news with September and October transit ridership. At first I thought things looked pretty good for October ridership. September was 5,853,408 October was 5,369, 681. Less than 500K less in October.
However. the numbers don't look as good compared to 2024 numbers. September 2024 was 6,082,678 and October 2024 6,447,161. About 230K difference September 2024 vs September 2025, and over 1,000,000 difference October 2024 vs October 2025.
So on one hand comparing 2025 to 2025 it looks ok, on the other hand comparing 2024 to 2025 though is significantly different.
Data from: https://data.edmonton.ca/Transit/Transit-Ridership/wj6v-epas/data_preview
Ridership in November 2024 then dropped to 5,471,805. I don't recall if there was anything that could have inflated the October 2024 number, but it does seem like an anomaly. I will be curious to see where November 2025 ridership ends up.
Avenuer
Senior Member
Next week you will be able to pay for the bus or LRT by just tapping your credit card on the Arc Readers.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Looks like priority signals being installed on Jasper Avenue and 97 Avenue for the transit improvements.
Blizzard
New Member
We've been mulling this over as well. The 500-level routes are noticibly down from 2024 to 2025. Valley Line took a minor ridership hit as well in November year/year. We only had vague ideas why but then this story was published out of Brampton that gave us something to chew on --> https://www.bramptonguardian.com/ne...cle_75df02a1-01da-5133-a1e2-ebf9be07e46a.html
We really try our best to remove demographics and assumptions about areas of the city from the equation when looking holistically at city-wide trends but I think - specifically in the case of southeast Edmonton - there might be something going on here.
YEG Bus Rider
Active Member
Bus:
Sep 2024 - 4.2M
Sep 2025 - 4.06M (4% decline YOY)
Oct 2024 - 4.45M
Oct 2025 - 3.69M (17.2% decline, weekday down 18% due to the teacher’s strike)
Valley Line:
Sep 2024 - 279,000
Sep 2025 - 288,000 (3% increase)
Oct 2024 - 296,685
Oct 2025 - 279,003 (5.9% decline)
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thommyjo
Senior Member
We need the valley line to get up over 500k/month. West leg will help SE ridership I’m sure by just adding norquest/macewan.
But man. The net increase in ridership for 2bil needs to be stronger.
cloney
New Member
norquest/macewan + all of downtown & oliver connected and WEM. I would expect the west leg to more than double the numbers of the SE leg
The_Cat
Senior Member
CplKlinger
Senior Member
As part of the Transit Priority Measures work, the city will be removing the scramble crosswalks on Whyte Ave.
northlands
Senior Member
Kind of puzzling to include the 105 & Whyte scramble (easily the most logical spot for one in the whole city), but if it's all or nothing I'll take the latter here.
Now get rid of all the scrambles downtown, which are all entirely redundant.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Remove scrambles, but also cut in half the intersection cycle times. Why a pedestrian is waiting 60-120 seconds at lights in our downtown is beyond stupid. 30-45 seconds tops. Keep people moving. Especially in the cold.
David A
Senior Member
The lights on Jasper are also still badly timed for pedestrians, I seem to get from one block to the next just when the light turns red and have to wait at almost every block.