ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Rainrider22]

Another great article by Ouhitt....

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...demic.html

He really specializes in the context-free numbers genre of articles. Of course LRT ridership fell more, it has more choice riders. One of the major points of the LRT was to attract choice riders.

Also, the last image, showing that GRT is used far less per-capita than the TTC or OC Transpo. It comes right after the chart showing that GRT also has far less subsidy than them. Perhaps the takeaway is that we should go to OC Transpo-levels of subsidy, and massively increase service. Ridership might just increase to OC Transpo levels.

At least he acknowledges the costs aren't comparable, though he then goes on to compare them anyways:

In part, this is because buses run on roads shared with drivers. Road costs, unlike separated LRT tracks and overhead wires, are not included in the calculation of transit costs.

But his data is always dated too.  He always uses Stats Canada most recent Census data which is already unreliable to the current situations in most cases.  Plus he is so biased against certain subjects, ie  LRT, Airport etc...  I cant believe he has won awards for his reporting.  The bar must be set very low.