[Kosy123]

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]

The Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board has finally updated its website and posted the ETS November branch highlight report including ridership data:

Bus boardings1 averaged at 1.58 million per week in October 2024, with each week showing consistent growth from the previous year. The week of October 13-19 saw a slight dip in boardings as it coincided with the Thanksgiving holiday.

Overall transit ridership1 reached a new monthly record of 6.4 million in October 2024. This replaces September 2024 as the most monthly trips on record. This figure represents a 22% increase in ridership from October 2023, and a 14 % increase from October 2019 levels. Ridership is on track to exceed 60 million in 2024.

 

[CplKlinger]

This memo (page 15 of this document) was sent from the LRT planning team in the 1970s, to the team planning Churchill Square. It is one of the LRT-related items that I scanned in the ERRS Archive (you can view more of the collection here). Fifty years later, and the situation seems to be about the same. I hate transferring between the LRT and the 7 because of the long wait in the cold on 102A Ave. I'm not sure what a good solution would be though. Perhaps all the bus stops around Churchill Square could be relocated to the CN Tower loop, where the new pedway connection is being constructed? But that would still leave a lot of folks waiting for their buses in the cold unless they build a proper heated shelter there, and I'm not sure how badly this location would mess with the schedules and routing for some routes.

 

[CplKlinger]

 

[Kosy123]

I still yearn for LRT station by station ridership statistics but great news nonetheless!