Like many Edmontonians, my family and I are daily transit users and depend on the bus and train to help us shop, work, and take care of our needs. Even if you don’t use public transit, these statistics are worth celebrating. Every transit trip represents one fewer car ahead of you on the road, stuck in traffic, or competing with you for a parking space!
Transit Ridership Update: If you think you’re seeing more transit riders, you’re right!
Like many Edmontonians, my family and I are daily transit users and depend on the bus and train to help us shop, work, and take care of our needs. Even if you don’t use public transit, these statistics are worth celebrating. Every transit trip represents one fewer car ahead of you on the road, stuck in traffic, or competing with you for a parking space!
Total transit ridership was 15.74 million in Q1 2025, representing an 11 per cent increase from 14.21 million in Q1 2024 and a 22 per cent increase from 12.95 million in Q1 2019 (pre-pandemic levels).
I hope that in future we’ll be able to keep making public transit faster and more frequent to help public transit serve as a first choice for more Edmontonians. Steps such as transit priority measures, increasing service on high frequency routes, and mitigating construction and route delays will help ensure all of us have a city that is smooth to move.
Do you want to nerd out on more transit data? ETS' 2024/2025 Annual Service Plan (ASP) has been published and is available on the Transit Reports webpage. One of my favorite features is the "Route Report Cards". I'm continually impressed by the transparency demonstrated by our leadership.
Thank you to all of the transit workers. Remember to thank your driver when you tap off!
This unprecedented event park/CRL extension should be put forward to taxpayers as a municipal referendum this upcoming municipal election and I will be moving a motion to advance this opportunity.
Wherever we are in the city, we all deserve to feel and be safe. Public health is a foundation of public safety. When people feel healthy and experience less pain, they are more likely to contribute positively to the community.
Over the last year, every week on Tuesday, the city of Edmonton and public health partners have set up a pop-up health clinic in west Edmonton, to take care of people experiencing homelessness. In addition to health improvements, clinic presence has contributed to a stronger sense of safety in the area, with fewer visible health crises and less gang-related activity reported.
Housing statistics show that Edmonton is slowly curbing urban sprawl. However, the majority of units are still homes built outside of the Henday. For anyone who is concerned about property taxes, air quality, or traffic, these stats should continue to ring alarm bells.
With population expected to grow 3.1% in 2025 thanks to Premier Smith's "Alberta is Calling" campaign, where are new people going to live and what does that mean for our city budget?
