OC Transpo Fares Poorly In Ridership
How is OC Transpo ridership comparing to the competition? Not good.
This from the Ottawa publication Capital Current:
Capital Current’s analysis of the Statistics Canada Consumer Price Index (CPI) reveals that national public transit ridership generally has rebounded to 77 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, but Ottawa has only seen 63 per cent of ridership return.
And this from the U.S. website Mass Transit:
U.S. public transit ridership has rebounded to 85 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, according to two new reports from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). APTA notes the national office occupancy rate is trailing behind transit’s recovery, sitting at 52 per cent.
So there you have it.
OC Transpo is trailing the nation in ridership by 14 per cent and is doing the same compared to the U.S. by 22 per cent.
It’s time to start asking tough questions of OC Transpo general manager Renee Amilcar and the senior hierarchy at the transit service.
Why is OC Transpo under-performing the industry? And what is Ottawa City Council doing about it?
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“Capital Current’s analysis of the Statistics Canada Consumer Price Index (CPI) reveals that national public transit ridership generally has rebounded to 77 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, but Ottawa has only seen 63 per cent of ridership return.”
So … there you have it … 63% ridership return. Now what does OC Transpo do with their flailing system? What does the transit commission recommend to shore up this money guzzling operation? Hike fares? Only if they want ridership to drop even more … Plan B? Plan C? Maybe they’ve run out of the alphabet and are stuck at what plan comes next? Maybe wave the white flag and concede no one having anything to do with public transit, be that buses or LRT, knows what they’re doing. Any way you slice it, OC Transpo as it stands is doomed.
Excellent Benchmark
How do rate relative to accessibility and convenience, safety for women, reduction in transit pollution as a precent of overall air pollution from transit (Currently 80%)
How do we rate relative to other cities in homelessness per capita? Tree Canopy?
Perhaps there is a need to add significantly to the city’s funding of OC Transpo. That would require a significant increase in the property tax mil rate.
Once again, council has chosen the easy way out. Disappoint nearly all of the taxpayers versus disappoint the ever diminishing number of transit users. The arithmetic is easy, when the focus is on the number of votes the incumbents are chasing in next year’s municipal election.