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Connecting Edmonton with an effective, user-friendly, and accessible public transit system through advocacy and community building 🚌🚊
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Also a good reminder that higher public transit usage benefits everybody, If even a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of trips taken on ETS everyday shifted to car traffic, our city would come to a standstill
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We love this program and want it to succeed far into the future, and to do that this program needs to...
✅Be ambitious
✅Improve transparency
✅and most importantly, fund transit priority measures again in the next city budget
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This program was introduced in the most recent capital budget in 2023, and we need it to continue in future budgets if we don't want buses to get slower and less reliable as congestion grows
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With a budget of just over $7 million, congested sections of our transit network are being upgraded to help them not get stuck in traffic. Priority measures are quick to install and affordable for the value that they could provide in reliability and speed, freeing up more buses and LOWERING COSTS!
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The transit service deficit is a long-term issue facing our system, and proactively addressing it should be a major priority for our city council
If you want to learn how we can bump our service levels up to our minimum standards, make sure to follow us here and at edmontontransitriders.org
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The ETS Annual Service Plan set out service changes for this year, with many low-ridership routes being cut or rerouted to support busier and more crowded routes. This leaves many neighbourhoods with worse service than before, we shouldn't have to pit neighbourhoods against each other for transit
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If funding does not keep pace with population growth and suburban expansion, we will see bus service have to be spread over a larger city with more people having to wait longer or walk further to their local bus
We want a city that can maintain service AND welcome new neighbours
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With the SE Valley Line opening and the 2025 service increases we have taken a big bite out of our deficit, but we are still well below our minimum standards
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The city has set itself standards for how transit should operate, but hasn't provided the funding or buses for ETS to reach this minimum level of service! Not only that, but as more and more people call Edmonton home, and new neighbourhoods pop up, this gap will only widen
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We made it on canva!
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One of the best things about transit is that everyone has an opinion and wants to share!
And don’t worry you’ll definitely get to read through all of these sometime soon without having to zoom in on a windy picture
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...I dig into an unsung transit success story in the latest HIGH SPEED dispatch. If you enter your email and become a member, you can access this one for free:
www.highspeed.blog/rocky-mounta...
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Yes, Capital Line South is so incredibly busy right now that crowding on trains is a big concern
This project is good because it gets the many students and transit riders out of buses along the congested 111th st, but capacity improvements like Terwillegar and Cgy Trl BRT are necessary soon
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We hope to see you there!
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Our celebration event is on April 28, Election Day, so don't forget to vote! This federal election, vote for better public transportation (and other issues you care about).
#yeg #canpoli
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We have also created a custom Google Map with all the participating bookstores! Bookmark it for this weekend or another time.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#Yeg #SupportLocalYEG