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

· Said in 6 comments · 5 claims

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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.

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

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

    Said in 2 comments

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

      Frosty Squirrel S.

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

      Mossy Merlin C.

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

    Said in 1 comment

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

      Granite Deer C.

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

    Said in 1 comment

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

      Riverside Crow J.

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

    Said in 1 comment

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

      Hardy Vole C.

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

    Said in 1 comment

    • Since transit is a more efficient method of moving people

      Golden Elk C.