Does anyone know of a good site for Candian transit stats?
Something that gives not only ridership levels but percapita levels and also separate data for our mass transit systems.
APTA in the US is a fantastic site for everything you want to know about transit in the US. CUTA, on the other hand, is beyond useless.
Any ideas? :dunno:

APTA has Canadians stats too, but for boardings only, not linked trips, and only for certain cities. Other than that, there really isn't anywhere else. But here somthign at least:

Annual Ridership (millions per year)

* - Up to date (2004)

Toronto Transit Commission: 418.1 *
Société de transport de Montréal: 363.2
Translink (Vancouver): 155.6 *
OC Transpo (Ottawa): 88.8 *
Calgary Transit: 80.5
Edmonton Transit System: 46.0
GO Transit (Toronto): 45.0
Reseau de transport de la Capitale (Quebec City): 38.8
Winnipeg Transit: 37.7
Reseau de Transport Longueuil (Montreal): 30.0
Mississauga Transit (Toronto): 25.4 *
Hamilton Street Railway: 20.3
Victoria Regional Transit System: 19.3
Societe de transport de la Ville de Laval (Montreal): 18.8
Metro Transit (Halifax): 18.7
London Transit Commission: 17.9 *
Societe de Transport de L'Outaouais (Gatineau/Ottawa): 16.0
York Region Transit (Toronto): 13.8 *
Grand River Transit (Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge): 11.0 *
Brampton Transit (Toronto): 8.4 *
Saskatoon Transit: 7.2 *
Regina Transit: 6.4
Transit Windsor: 5.7 *
Oshawa Transit Commission: 4.3
Greater Sudbury Transit: 3.7 *
Oakville Transit (Toronto): 2.1
Ajax-Pickering Transit Authority (Toronto): 2.0
Burlington Transit (Hamilton): 1.5
Whitby Transit (Oshawa): 1.0
St. Albert Transit (Edmonton): 0.9


Fleet Size (bus/LRV/HRV/other)

Toronto Transit Commission: 1502 / 248 / 684 / 28 *
Société de transport de Montréal: 1592 / 0 / 759
Translink (Vancouver): 1250 / 0 / 0 / 212
OC Transpo (Ottawa): 924 / ?
Calgary Transit: 774 / 116
Edmonton Transit System: 802 / 37
GO Transit (Toronto): 288 / 0 / 382
Winnipeg Transit: 535
Reseau de transport de la Capitale (Quebec City): 513
Reseau de transport Longueuil (Montreal): 350
Mississauga Transit (Toronto): 345 *
York Region Transit (Toronto): 241 *
Societe de transport de la Ville de Laval (Montreal): 225
Societe de Transport de L'Outaouais (Gatineau/Ottawa): 220
Victoria Regional Transit System: 218
Hamilton Street Railway: 198
London Transit Commission: 178 *
Grand River Transit (Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge): 162 *
Brampton Transit (Toronto): 155
Transit Windsor: 93
Oakville Transit (Toronto): 60
Oshawa Transit Commission: 50 *
Ajax-Pickering Transit Authority (Toronto): 50
Thunder Bay Transit: 49 *
Greater Sudbury Transit: 48
Prince Albert Transit: 48 *
Burlington Transit (Hamilton): 40
St. Albert Transit (Edmonton): 39
Whitby Transit (Oshawa): 22

Hmm... some updated 2004/5 figures:

Calgary Transit boarding: 117.4
Translink fleet: 1328/0/43/212

The stats I posted don't show boardings.

"OC Transpo (Ottawa): 88.8 *
Calgary Transit: 80.5
Edmonton Transit System: 46.0"

really shows the make up of a city...be it downtown heavy or city wide spread.

In the first 7 months of 2005, North Bay transit recorded 1, 338 643 riders, so if that pace continues, by the end of the year the local system will clock in at 2, 294,817 riders.

Not bad for a city of 56,000.

Ya, its revenue miles that counts.
I think Ottawa's numbers a bit scewed because it also gets passengers from Hull making their percapita ridership higher than it is.
I think a better way to provide numbers is for combined Ottawa/Gatineau transit numbers divided by population.
They are different provinces but totally integrated in most ways.
This is like WestVancouver transit is included in Translink numbers although technically not the same.

Sorry doady, forgot to say thank you for the stats.
Wouldn't it great if CUTA was as good as APTA.

fyi: seems like the AMT 5 train lines aren't in there.

fyi: seems like the AMT 5 train lines aren't in there.

Neither are the Richelin(which serves south shore cities of LaPrairie, Candiac, Ste-Catherine, St-Constant, Delson) as well as the CITVR (Commission Intermunicipal de Transport de la Vallée du Richelieu) which serves the cities of Ste-Julie, St-Hilaire, St-jean, Iberville, Carignan, Chambly etc.etc.

Who's numbers are you using?

Interesting that Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton are almost equal size (CMA), but Ottawa/Gatineau's traffic numbers are so high!

Yeah, there are lots of transit systems missing, so I don't see why you are pointing to the ones in Montreal area.

Yeah, there are lots of transit systems missing, so I don't see why you are pointing to the ones in Montreal area.

cause its the one we (habsfan and me) know about.

Fair enough. I did try to get the stats for AMT but couldn't find it.

Edmonton's is pretty lousy compared to Calgary. Calgary's are lower than O/G but not by much as they serve an area of 1.15million but Calgary transit only serves the city itself with 960,000. Calgary's numbers are also rising faster than Ottawa's.
Amasing some of the differences within provinces. Transit Windsor carries just over one third London's level but serves 70% of its population.
Considering its size and the fact that it is an older and eastern city VQ numbers aren't so hot.

Don't forget that Edmonton also has St. Albert and Sherwood Park transit systems operating within its border.

Don't forget that Edmonton also has St. Albert and Sherwood Park transit systems operating within its border.

So? OC Transpo is almost double Edmonton Transit. St Albert Transit is absolutely puny compared to STO and I doubt Sherwood Park's system would make up the difference.

If the TTC had better funding and more of a system built up then their ridership would be way, way higher but as always the TTC will continue to suffer and be neglected.

I am interested in finding out YorkRegions new Transit numbers since VIVA has been introduced.

I came across some numbers for Sault Ste. Marie:

From The Sault Star: "Ridership in 2005 is projected to stand at 1,615,500 passenger trips. That would be about a four per cent increase over the 1,558,486 trips taken in 2004."

I am interested in finding out YorkRegions new Transit numbers since VIVA has been introduced.

I work in the Woodbridge area and I see most of the VIVA buses half empty most of the time even during rush hour.....

It is probably too early to judge the success of VIVA, I think. The ridership can still build up a lot.