Edmonton’s transit system is seeing record usage, with six million trips taken in September.
From January to September of this year, ridership is up 14 per cent compared to 2023, according to the City of Edmonton.
The city expects to facilitate 60 million trips in 2024 between bus routes and the LRT, an increase from 53 million in 2023.
The Valley Line LRT route alone is responsible for two million trips between November 2023, when it opened, and August.
As of July 2023, Edmonton’s population was up 4.1 per cent, the second highest growth rate in the country for cities with more than one million residents, according to Statistics Canada.
Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal and Ottawa-Gatineau all experienced their fastest growth between July 2022 and 2023 since the 2001-2002 numbers.
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