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Nathan Pachal has been writing, researching, and talking about issues that affect the livability of Metro Vancouver, with a focus on the South of Fraser, for over seven years. In 2008 he co-founded South Fraser OnTrax —a sustainable transportation advocacy organization— and the Greater Langley Cycling Coalition in 2009. He also co-authored “Leap Ahead: A transit plan for Metro Vancouver” with Paul Hillsdon in 2013. This plan was a precursor to the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation Transit Plan for Metro Vancouver.
Here’s his latest work – a report card on transit across Canada.
To understand how public transit is delivered throughout Canada, we need to compare our transit systems.
This report card looks at Canada’s major regions, and the transit agencies that serve them. Regional transit service is graded based on industry standard metrics, plus a new metric called Passenger Trip Intensity which shows the effectiveness of transit service while accounting for the inequality of per capita service hours across major Canadian regions.
Overall, transit service in the Montreal region received top grades based on the metric we used. Transit service in Vancouver took second place. Transit service in Calgary, Edmonton, the GTA (Toronto & Hamilton), and Ottawa (National Capital Region) performed within the standard tolerance for transit service in Canada. No region had sub-par transit service.
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For Metro Vancouver:
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More on Nathan’s blog here.
Yet another antidote for the guff of the No side on the transit plebiscite. TransLink’s operations have been very good by comparison with other cities.
A little late, though.
And irrelevant. This is and was always a PR/election style campaign and the ‘yes’ side failed miserably.