Occasional PT author, and full-time Langley City Councilor Nathan Pachal has written the latest Canada-wide transit report card (18-page PDF HERE). Note included commentary by this Fellow Gordon Price.
Peter Fassbender, no longer in service
Transit service in Canada’s major regions has not been able to keep up with population growth. Under-investment by all levels of government has resulted in overcrowding in some areas, and lack of service in others.
“Whether it’s elementary school students or transit systems, by the time you get three years of grades you can begin to see the trends. Nathan Pachal has again provided – for Canada’s transit networks – the comparisons, the grades and the trends,” says Gordon Price, Fellow at the SFU Centre for Dialogue.
Service hours per capita, transit service per person, has been declining steadily over the last three years reported. The good news, though, is that transit agencies have been doing more with less. Passenger Trip Intensity, a measure of efficiency, has been increasing year over year.
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The analysis is reasonably intense, and it helps a lot to review the definitions and arithmetic used to form the rankings. See the Pachal report PDF.
The data is from “Canada Transit Fact book — 2015 Operating Data” (by Canadian Urban Transit Association). The book is available for purchase HERE.
That is a very tidy report. Thanks to Nathan for putting it together in a simple to read fashion.