Grand River Transit

[danbrotherston]

The Record recently published an article which compares Fall 2019 to Fall 2023.

That jump in Conestoga students is obviously huge, but the 50% increase in "Monthly pass holders" is bigger news to me. That's a huge jump in ridership for (presumably mostly) non-students for just a 4-year span.

I may be wrong, but I would assume that the drop in University student ridership can be explained by the development of the Northdale neighbourhood. Centralizing student housing within walking distance of the schools will naturally reduce the reliance on transit and driving for transportation.

On a related note, the City of London recently set a target of 32.5% for active transportation and transit usage in their city. Does anyone know if the Region of Waterloo has a metric that they're trying to hit?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/po...-1.7155957

Lol...the comments are hilarious from people who are pretty typical....

""If we go with this 35 per cent target, you're constraining the system so that everybody is stuck in traffic and that's when the pollution is the greatest, when you're idling.""

This is literally gobblygook, non-reality speaking from the councillor. 

For RoW their plan was outlined here: https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/livin...-06-12.pdf

I'd call it wildly unambitious. The 2010 goal was ~70% car modeshare by 2031. The 2018 plan made the bold move of making that same goal a 2041 goal, and planning to achieve that with 32 road expansions, 5 road extensions, and 2 whole new road categories. Yes there were other planned investments in transit and cycling, but I was disgusted with the process which absolutely was a Business as Usual plan.