Next week, as part of the Fall operating budget adjustment, Council will be debating how to fill the transit funding gap
Check out our full statement on filling that funding gap here: edmontontransitriders.org/2024/11/addr...
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
Check out our full statement on filling that funding gap here: edmontontransitriders.org/2024/11/addr...
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
November 28, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Next week, as part of the Fall operating budget adjustment, Council will be debating how to fill the transit funding gap
Check out our full statement on filling that funding gap here: edmontontransitriders.org/2024/11/addr...
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
Check out our full statement on filling that funding gap here: edmontontransitriders.org/2024/11/addr...
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
Edmonton Greyhound Station (1950s)
YouTube video by CineAudioVisual
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March 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We echo ATU's concern, transit peace officers provide vital "eyes on the street" for our transit system. Their purpose is to support to our transit system, and we want to make sure that it stays that way
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We echo ATU's concern, transit peace officers provide vital "eyes on the street" for our transit system. Their purpose is to support to our transit system, and we want to make sure that it stays that way
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Articles like this on transit priority measures treat the status quo as sacred, and say even the smallest improvements to important transit corridors are a "war on cars"
They are meant to stoke anger, and that's not the city we want!
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/lorn...
They are meant to stoke anger, and that's not the city we want!
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/lorn...
Lorne Gunter: 'War on cars': Get set for city's move to one-lane roadways to make way for buses
The city's hope is that dedicated lanes will make transit trips faster and “foster positive transit user experience and enable growth.”
edmontonjournal.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Articles like this on transit priority measures treat the status quo as sacred, and say even the smallest improvements to important transit corridors are a "war on cars"
They are meant to stoke anger, and that's not the city we want!
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/lorn...
They are meant to stoke anger, and that's not the city we want!
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/lorn...
Today we were on CBC to talk about the fare increases coming up at the start of February, and the importance of keeping Edmonton's affordability advantage while supporting those who benefit most from affordable transportation
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...
Edmonton transit prices are set to increase for the first time since 2021. Starting Feb. 1, fares will increase for most groups. Some increases include Arc single-trip fares going from $2.75 to $3, ...
TikTok video by CBC Edmonton
www.tiktok.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Today we were on CBC to talk about the fare increases coming up at the start of February, and the importance of keeping Edmonton's affordability advantage while supporting those who benefit most from affordable transportation
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
www.tiktok.com/@cbcedmonton...
We talk to a lot of transit riders around the city, and one thing we hear no matter where we go is that Coliseum Station is not a fun place to wait for a train or bus.
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
August 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We talk to a lot of transit riders around the city, and one thing we hear no matter where we go is that Coliseum Station is not a fun place to wait for a train or bus.
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
The Provincial budget is under a week away
And low income transit programs are at risk of losing funding!
Share your support for this funding by sending a message to the provincial government here: edmontontransitriders.org/protect-affo...
#ableg
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
And low income transit programs are at risk of losing funding!
Share your support for this funding by sending a message to the provincial government here: edmontontransitriders.org/protect-affo...
#ableg
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
February 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Provincial budget is under a week away
And low income transit programs are at risk of losing funding!
Share your support for this funding by sending a message to the provincial government here: edmontontransitriders.org/protect-affo...
#ableg
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
And low income transit programs are at risk of losing funding!
Share your support for this funding by sending a message to the provincial government here: edmontontransitriders.org/protect-affo...
#ableg
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
For the past few months, we have been advocating to ETS to release their "route report cards" showing ridership, on-time performance, and other important bus route stats📈
Report cards are back today!
Check out your local route here
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Report cards are back today!
Check out your local route here
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
For the past few months, we have been advocating to ETS to release their "route report cards" showing ridership, on-time performance, and other important bus route stats📈
Report cards are back today!
Check out your local route here
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Report cards are back today!
Check out your local route here
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Thank you to everyone who came out to Meadows today!
We had some great conversations about accessibility on transit, and the importance of matching funding to population growth (and we gave away some cupcakes)
See you at the next one
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
We had some great conversations about accessibility on transit, and the importance of matching funding to population growth (and we gave away some cupcakes)
See you at the next one
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
April 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out to Meadows today!
We had some great conversations about accessibility on transit, and the importance of matching funding to population growth (and we gave away some cupcakes)
See you at the next one
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
We had some great conversations about accessibility on transit, and the importance of matching funding to population growth (and we gave away some cupcakes)
See you at the next one
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
Want to share your support for this campaign and speed up transit along 101st Street?
Check out our campaign page edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/, and use our automatic email tool to message your city councillor.
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Check out our campaign page edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/, and use our automatic email tool to message your city councillor.
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Transit 101 – Edmonton Transit Riders
edmontontransitriders.org
April 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Want to share your support for this campaign and speed up transit along 101st Street?
Check out our campaign page edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/, and use our automatic email tool to message your city councillor.
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Check out our campaign page edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/, and use our automatic email tool to message your city councillor.
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Thousands of people take transit every single day in Edmonton, and I Love ETS Route 4 and Auricle are doing amazing work to bring transit riders together and find ways to make our transit system a happier place!
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/08...
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/08...
How two transit movements take similar routes to highlight positivity in place of negativity
Just as transit enthusiasts are using memes to spread love for Edmonton's bus and LRT routes as well as combat negativity, a unique research project has returned to the city to ask transit riders what...
edmonton.taproot.news
August 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thousands of people take transit every single day in Edmonton, and I Love ETS Route 4 and Auricle are doing amazing work to bring transit riders together and find ways to make our transit system a happier place!
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/08...
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/08...
I have been thinking a lot about how our LRT network could have looked if we embraced our high-floor regional network instead of building a more locally oriented system
It lead me to this map, which I think would have been an incredible and fast network
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
It lead me to this map, which I think would have been an incredible and fast network
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
November 29, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I have been thinking a lot about how our LRT network could have looked if we embraced our high-floor regional network instead of building a more locally oriented system
It lead me to this map, which I think would have been an incredible and fast network
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
It lead me to this map, which I think would have been an incredible and fast network
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
We had a great time today talking with transit riders outside of the Old Strathcona Farmers Market!
There was a lot of excitement for the city’s BRT plans, ideas for improvements to communications and wayfinding, and discussion on fare payment changes.
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
There was a lot of excitement for the city’s BRT plans, ideas for improvements to communications and wayfinding, and discussion on fare payment changes.
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
September 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We had a great time today talking with transit riders outside of the Old Strathcona Farmers Market!
There was a lot of excitement for the city’s BRT plans, ideas for improvements to communications and wayfinding, and discussion on fare payment changes.
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
There was a lot of excitement for the city’s BRT plans, ideas for improvements to communications and wayfinding, and discussion on fare payment changes.
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
Let's make sure we get our transit priority measures done well, not just along 101st street, but everywhere we need them!
Check out our campaign page: edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
And send an email to your councillor here: win.newmode.net/edmontontran...
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Check out our campaign page: edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
And send an email to your councillor here: win.newmode.net/edmontontran...
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
March 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Let's make sure we get our transit priority measures done well, not just along 101st street, but everywhere we need them!
Check out our campaign page: edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
And send an email to your councillor here: win.newmode.net/edmontontran...
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Check out our campaign page: edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
And send an email to your councillor here: win.newmode.net/edmontontran...
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
Ask me again why I stopped taking #yegLRT for the past three years. #yeg
1 dead, 5 in custody after fight at Edmonton LRT station
www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/c...
1 dead, 5 in custody after fight at Edmonton LRT station
www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/c...
From the Edmonton community on Reddit: 1 dead, 5 in custody after fight at Edmonton LRT station
Explore this post and more from the Edmonton community
www.reddit.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Ask me again why I stopped taking #yegLRT for the past three years. #yeg
1 dead, 5 in custody after fight at Edmonton LRT station
www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/c...
1 dead, 5 in custody after fight at Edmonton LRT station
www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/c...
We want to hear from transit riders!
We are trying to cover this bus with rider driven ideas for improving our transit system
This bus will be with us at all our events, with a supplementary “share your story” form at edmontontransitriders.org
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
We are trying to cover this bus with rider driven ideas for improving our transit system
This bus will be with us at all our events, with a supplementary “share your story” form at edmontontransitriders.org
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
June 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We want to hear from transit riders!
We are trying to cover this bus with rider driven ideas for improving our transit system
This bus will be with us at all our events, with a supplementary “share your story” form at edmontontransitriders.org
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
We are trying to cover this bus with rider driven ideas for improving our transit system
This bus will be with us at all our events, with a supplementary “share your story” form at edmontontransitriders.org
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
How the federal government funds public transit has changed with the Canada Public Transit Fund.
The Baseline stream funding could unlock $16.4 million every single year for upgrading and maintaining Edmonton's transit system.
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
The Baseline stream funding could unlock $16.4 million every single year for upgrading and maintaining Edmonton's transit system.
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
How the federal government funds public transit has changed with the Canada Public Transit Fund.
The Baseline stream funding could unlock $16.4 million every single year for upgrading and maintaining Edmonton's transit system.
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
The Baseline stream funding could unlock $16.4 million every single year for upgrading and maintaining Edmonton's transit system.
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
We want transit on the minds of every city council candidate this fall
Fill out this survey by @taprootedmonton.ca to help elevate the importance transit issues and opportunities for this fall's municipal election
#yegtransit
#vote4transit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
Fill out this survey by @taprootedmonton.ca to help elevate the importance transit issues and opportunities for this fall's municipal election
#yegtransit
#vote4transit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
What do you care about in this election?
Taproot is gathering information from the community to better understand what issues are most important as voters make their decisions for the municipal election on Oct. 20, 2025.
edmonton.taproot.vote
May 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We want transit on the minds of every city council candidate this fall
Fill out this survey by @taprootedmonton.ca to help elevate the importance transit issues and opportunities for this fall's municipal election
#yegtransit
#vote4transit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
Fill out this survey by @taprootedmonton.ca to help elevate the importance transit issues and opportunities for this fall's municipal election
#yegtransit
#vote4transit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
Why are high quality transit priority measures necessary along 101st Street?
Here are 3 (of many)
Learn more and share your support at edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
Here are 3 (of many)
Learn more and share your support at edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
April 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Why are high quality transit priority measures necessary along 101st Street?
Here are 3 (of many)
Learn more and share your support at edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
Here are 3 (of many)
Learn more and share your support at edmontontransitriders.org/transit-101/
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
WE DID IT!!!
The Alberta 2025 budget confirmed that Edmonton's Ride Transit (low income transit pass) has received funding to continue operations for the next year!
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
#ableg
The Alberta 2025 budget confirmed that Edmonton's Ride Transit (low income transit pass) has received funding to continue operations for the next year!
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
#ableg
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
WE DID IT!!!
The Alberta 2025 budget confirmed that Edmonton's Ride Transit (low income transit pass) has received funding to continue operations for the next year!
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
#ableg
The Alberta 2025 budget confirmed that Edmonton's Ride Transit (low income transit pass) has received funding to continue operations for the next year!
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
#yegcc
#ableg
101st Street between Jasper Ave and Kingsway is one of the most important bus corridors in Edmonton, so we want to see it get the care it deserves in order to best serve the tens of thousands of transit trips taken on bus routes that use this corridor every single day
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
March 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
101st Street between Jasper Ave and Kingsway is one of the most important bus corridors in Edmonton, so we want to see it get the care it deserves in order to best serve the tens of thousands of transit trips taken on bus routes that use this corridor every single day
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
#yegtransit
#yegcc
#yeglrt
I really wish I knew what was going on with the #yeglrt valley line this commute. I am now trying to find a bus as it never came in time to meet up with my family as planned.
February 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I really wish I knew what was going on with the #yeglrt valley line this commute. I am now trying to find a bus as it never came in time to meet up with my family as planned.
We were out at Taste of Edmonton today collecting ideas from transit riders on how we can best improve our system!
These ideas will inform our future advocacy, and be sent to the City
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
These ideas will inform our future advocacy, and be sent to the City
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
July 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
We were out at Taste of Edmonton today collecting ideas from transit riders on how we can best improve our system!
These ideas will inform our future advocacy, and be sent to the City
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
These ideas will inform our future advocacy, and be sent to the City
#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt
‘I have so many questions’: Family of boy killed at LRT station say police provided conflicting information
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
#yeg #yegcc #yeglrt
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
#yeg #yegcc #yeglrt
‘I have so many questions’: Family of boy killed at LRT station say police provided conflicting information
The family of a teenage boy killed in an altercation at an Edmonton LRT station last week say police gave them different information about what happened than what was released to the public.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
‘I have so many questions’: Family of boy killed at LRT station say police provided conflicting information
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
#yeg #yegcc #yeglrt
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
#yeg #yegcc #yeglrt
It looks like it could be finally happening!
On Wednesday Exec Committee will look to accept a deal with Telus to fill cell service gaps in our LRT tunnels
We encourage council to approve this deal, and massively increase rider quality of life
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
On Wednesday Exec Committee will look to accept a deal with Telus to fill cell service gaps in our LRT tunnels
We encourage council to approve this deal, and massively increase rider quality of life
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
January 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It looks like it could be finally happening!
On Wednesday Exec Committee will look to accept a deal with Telus to fill cell service gaps in our LRT tunnels
We encourage council to approve this deal, and massively increase rider quality of life
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt
On Wednesday Exec Committee will look to accept a deal with Telus to fill cell service gaps in our LRT tunnels
We encourage council to approve this deal, and massively increase rider quality of life
#yegcc
#yegtransit
#yeglrt