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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...

It is definitely real. Today I ran into the car again and got the remainder of the messages which include "Ouch!" and "That one hurt!" I also saw the Culligan truck that got hit of all things. It is the new style of International chassis which made me look close when I saw it today, and indeed...

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.

2015 has a new wrap for AMA, with such messages as "Give this train a brake" and " Please don't hit me!"

A train with car 2022 leading to Mill Woods was involved in a a collision with a Culligan truck at 100 St. 20 minutes delay before they got things running. Trains are alternating between terminating at Churchill or 102 St. Damage is minor. Headlight panels were damaged but were able to be put...

ETS has a long term contract, so yes. These 25 buses should be growth buses as that was an unfunded profile that was included in the Supplemental Capital Budget Adjustment. Presumably they approved the associated operating costs. Some of the buses will go towards converting some On Demand to...

Transit centres are heated, and ETS continually does a better job with heating which each new transit centre. Enclosed stations, and platform screen doors are going to be a huge expense. I suspect that the missing upper glazing is temporary.

Good news! This work happened a few weeks ago... I just forgot about it until I was on the platform today. All of the wood is gone, and broken glass replaced, sort of. Being up close today, I realized that they hadn't replaced the top portion, and that the the bottom portion that a was...

It looks like construction has begun in Strathearn. Finally. This will certainly help out Valley Line ridership.

There are alternatives available, like the 501 on 92 St. 89 Ave could be served by a 524 re-routed via 92 Ave. Additionally, ETS could arrange to have the Strathcona 401 service those stops, as they did in Cloverdale with an additional stop for the 411. Evenings and certain times on Saturday and...

I am hopeful that once the WLRT is open they will turn the 500x into a shuttle between Meadows and Davies. That would had 3000+ daily trips to the Valley Line.

From the Fall 2025 Operating Budget Update: "A fare revenue gap is occuring due to changing industry and economic conditions in Edmonton. Transit ridership has recovered to pre-pandemic levels for conventional bus service; however, ridership gains are still needed for paratransit and LRT service...

When the hell did I state that? I simply stated when the relevant teams and equipment are stationed. I've watched the Technical Rescue team practise using the High Level Bridge for high angle rescues though. They would certainly get any extra training and equipment of needed.

EFR has watercraft based at Station 21 in Rossdale, and the technical rescue team with their dedicated and specially equipped truck is based at Station 3 on 76 Ave and 112 St.

For arguments sake? This is an impossible set of parameters to use for a realistic argument! Show me a conventional HSR that operates at 500 km/h. And the then an arrow straight route? Not realistic. I'm not even sure if there is a maglev line that operates at 500 km/rh, and while some...

I think something to keep in mind is that the tram-trains you are thinking of run on a mix a tram and mainline railway routes. I gather your proposal is more so to keep the LRT/ Regional route seperate, but operate it with a higher speed vehicle. That's simple, just spec higher speed vehicles...

Probably just the one so far. Usually 1 vehicle of a new type is delivered ahead of time for initial testing and commissioning before the balance starts arriving. Then there's whether there's space to store the cars. Building A doesn't have much capacity to store many extra LRV's, which likely...

I am certain you could, yet when I've been near a FVM over the last couple of weeks and remembered, I played around to see if I could buy multiple tickets at once and there was never an option.

I find these responses strange all because the fare vending machine is down. Yes, I agree there should be two. And ETS should have more FVM's located at Transit Centres, but apparently Mill Woods and WEM are the only ones worthy of receiving them. And Mill Woods has them nearby anyways at the...

TransEd's Freightliner hi-rail was pushing and pulling 2024 around the yard this morning. I suspect it was testing the connection between Building A and Building B trackage, but didn't actually see it doing it so cannot confirm. Given the flatbed of the Freightliner was filled with among other...