David A
Senior Member
I call bs on this. For instance, if someone wants to put money into a joint account, they can add it, no one will object. But it makes for a nice excuse for inaction, which our city is good at.
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Blizzard
New Member
That's great. What I'm saying is that the agreement signed held each party (City of Leduc, the County of Leduc, City of Edmonton, Edmonton International Airport) to fund 25% of Route 747. Are you suggesting that the City not hold the parties accountable for the agreements they sign? The City is already required to provide and maintain all of the buses for this. Are you suggesting that the City also completely fund what is ultimately an EXTREMELY expensive - albeit economically advantageous - route completely by itself when the benefits are felt regionally?
Glenco
Senior Member
What makes me embarrassed is Edmontonians who don’t support the interests of their city. Why is it expected that Edmonton should carry the cost of all regional services and yet the outlying communities stand to benefit disproportionately from the increased tax base of said services. Time for everyone to realize that pooling resources to improve services for all is a more reasonable approach.
The_Cat
Senior Member
I believe the 65th Avenue/QE II overpass will be done by June 2025. This would give a link between the airport and Leduc.
trevorhayden
Active Member
I don't mind if Edmonton pays more than their fair share. Would rather we call the shots in metro Edmonton than Danielle Smith.
David A
Senior Member
I don't have a problem if others agree to contribute. I just have a problem when it became an excuse for our city to delay funding more.
BrettB
Active Member
If only there were a regional transit service where all municipalities contributed and set priorities. Man, Edmonton would really benefit from that.
Oh wait...
Oh wait...
Blizzard
New Member
I'm not sure if you're trolling now or what but I can promise you that's not how any of this went down.
YEG imagineer
Active Member
Interesting research as to why transit building is so expensive in Canada. https://stateofcitiessummit.ca/file...ction-Costs-in-Canada-A-Comparative-Study.pdf
The_Cat
Senior Member
It's win-win for Leduc and Edmonton. There are also a lot of employees that work at the International Airport and area.
David A
Senior Member
I agree, but it seems like pulling teeth to get more transit service to our airport. I was very disappointed the city did not go ahead with some direct service to downtown earlier.
I don't think the tourist experience is Edmonton is very good because of some of the these issues we fail to address and it remains a real blind spot for this city.
I do hope with increasing passenger numbers and new routes, perhaps transit service to airport will continue to be improved.
trevorhayden
Active Member
Yes, one of the main issues is definitely the bad public transit connections between the airport and major visitor destinations.
BrettB
Active Member
Late last week, Statistics Canada reported the October data for Canadian transit agencies, and it includes some pretty good numbers for ETS.
From October 2023 to October 2024, monthly transit ridership rose 22.4% from 5,247,100 to 6,422,400, while revenues rose 5.8% in the same time frame to $10 million (no explanation is given for the different rates of increase).
Among major transit agencies, the ETS increase is second only to Metrolinx in the GTA, which saw ridership rise 30%.
For comparison, Calgary saw ridership rise 10.4%, Toronto (TTC) 5.2% and Metro Vancouver (Translink) 2.7%.
Leduc is the only other agency in the Edmonton area that reports its ridership to StatsCan. It saw monthly ridership rise 62% to 16,700.
From October 2023 to October 2024, monthly transit ridership rose 22.4% from 5,247,100 to 6,422,400, while revenues rose 5.8% in the same time frame to $10 million (no explanation is given for the different rates of increase).
Among major transit agencies, the ETS increase is second only to Metrolinx in the GTA, which saw ridership rise 30%.
For comparison, Calgary saw ridership rise 10.4%, Toronto (TTC) 5.2% and Metro Vancouver (Translink) 2.7%.
Leduc is the only other agency in the Edmonton area that reports its ridership to StatsCan. It saw monthly ridership rise 62% to 16,700.
Kosy123
Senior Member
Great news overall! I've been looking at other transit agencies and frankly Edmonton's been doing pretty good with ridership recovery (I think we can safely say we're onto the post-recovery phase now)
BrettB
Active Member
The Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board has finally updated its website and posted the ETS November branch highlight report including ridership data:
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