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Is Edmonton transit and the LRT a workable alternative to driving?

· Discussed by 6 people · 5 claims

Going ahead

Published schedules, trip planners, service histories, ridership and collision records can compare transit with driving and test the specific claims about LRT and removed routes.

ETS travel times, ridership and service change records, plus the LRT's own ridership and collision data, settle these together.

People arguing in both directions raised this question, and every claim they made about it is checked, whichever way it points.

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Taken from Yegscoop post on council's 2026-08-26 bike lane decision, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this question is listed whatever became of it.

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The names below are pseudonyms, one to a commenter within this source; the number is the comment's place in the captured thread.

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  1. Commuting by transit in the Edmonton region takes several times as long as driving the same trip.

    Discussed by 2 people

    • Takes 18 mins to drive to work, which is in Leduc but that takes close to 3 hours via public transit

      Frosty Squirrel S. · comment 524

    • Driving to work 15min, busing to work 1 hour 45 minutes, biking to work 1 hour 5 minutes.

      Mossy Merlin C. · comment 531

  2. Edmonton's ground-level LRT travels slower than a bike and kills more people every year.

    Discussed by 1 person

    • ground level LRT, that travels slower then a bike, and kills more and more people every year

      Granite Deer C. · comment 290

  3. The LRT barely functions except for large events and people who live near its limited stations.

    Discussed by 1 person

    • That barely functions beyond large events or the die hards that happen to.live close to the limited LRT stations ..

      Riverside Crow J. · comment 381

  4. The City took out the ETS community bus routes.

    Discussed by 1 person

    • It would be a different story if ETS community buses weren’t taken out.

      Hardy Vole C. · comment 224

  5. Transit is a more efficient method of moving people than private cars.

    Discussed by 1 person

    • Since transit is a more efficient method of moving people

      Golden Elk C. · comment 258