Does anyone know if the new arena plans include refurbishing Pimisi Station with a design to better manage large crowds?

Yes yes, the operating costs would add to the transit deficit, but this could be part of a multi-pronged campaign to win back some ridership.

Invite residents to try to transit for their 2025 New Year’s resolution.

(if only more could be done about reliability, like more bus lanes, nudge nudge)

Exactly - instead of providing “free” (voucher required) transit to a subgroup, why not take the holiday season opportunity to just make transit free for all users. Easier to administer too.

Hosting the World Juniors, a once-every-15-years event, is something the whole city could celebrate.

It’s likely too late, but seeing the free transit initiative for ticketholders for the World Juniors, from Dec 19 to Jan 5.

Why not just make transit free entirely for this period?

Encourages a safer and more responsible transportation option in a time of year when impaired driving rates go up.

It would also be a positive safety measure that encourages use of a safer and more responsible transportation option during a time of year when increased rates of impaired driving are, unfortunately, a thing.

That and the prevailing narratives among detractors seem to be either it won’t be effective (in diverting enough truck traffic), or it will only ‘’move the problem to another neighborhood” (so, it will be effective?)

A sixth bridge crossing consistently slips off the local priority list because I think supporting it sucks up even more political capital than Stage 3 LRT or dedicated bus lanes on Baseline/Bank/Carling/Montreal, in terms of congestion-reducing initiatives.

When the Kichi Zibi Mikan lane reductions end west of Dominion (bringing it back to two lanes per direction), make one lane per direction a bus lane to give some congestion relief to the 31 bus routes that use this stretch of the parkway.

The single lanes have been brutal for these routes!

What tactics will OC Transpo deploy to not only keep existing ridership, but also entice 10-16K people to commit to transit?

How many Riverside South residents will adopt Line 2 for their regular commute?

5,000,000 new trips / 150 work days per year (3 days per week RTO) / 2 trips per work day = 16,666 new riders.

Adjust the assumption to 250 work days per year (5 days per week RTO) gets you to 10,000 new riders.

Thanks!

Thanks for this post, lots of interesting numbers to digest.

“In 2019, Ottawa’s projected transit ridership for 2025 was 125.8-million trips.”

!!!

Where can I find this stat?

And do you have any idea what the new ridership projection is for, say 2030, and what the plan is to get there?

Like that the article highlighted that risk aversion can lead to political concessions that increase costs.

Creates a vicious cycle that in turn undermines the “transit consensus” (that transit is worth the investment, period) which leads to more risk aversion, more concessions, then higher costs.

Ridiculous take: Metcalfe St should be widened/realigned so that it lines up symmetrically with the Peace Tower, Centennial Flame, and Museum of Nature, creating a clear sight line between the museum and Centre block. Ottawa’s own little Champs-Élysées.

For 2023-24 the announced amount for Ottawa was $33,061,834.

For 2022-23 it was $37,804,511.