The public engagements identified that transit riders would rather have to walk further to get to higher frequency routes, opposed to more routes operating less frequently. Two rounds of public consultations were held at various locations around the city, and online surveys collected feedback from riders. The City of Edmonton began completely redesigning its bus route network in 2017, with the aim of making it run more efficiently. This redesigned bus network was originally scheduled to be implemented on August 30, 2020, but was postponed until April 25, 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, to save approximately $3.7 million and defer tax increases for residents. Main article: List of Edmonton Transit Service bus routesĪ redesigned bus network that affected almost every Edmonton Transit bus route began on April 25, 2021.
A third LRV model, the Bombardier/Alstom Flexity Freedom, is currently undergoing testing for operation on the upcoming Valley Line. The Metro Line is currently being extended to the community of Blatchford.ĮTS operates two different models of light rail vehicles (LRV): The Siemens– Duewag U-2, which started service when the original line opened in 1978, and the Siemens SD-160, which began operation in 2008. The Metro Line shares track with the Capital Line in some sections, and services the central and north-central area of the city. Six stations are underground, while the remaining nine are at-grade with surface road crossings. The Capital Line runs roughly north–south, between Clareview station in northeast Edmonton and the Century Park station on the south side, with a mix of tunnels and at-grade track. Streetcars īombardier/Alstom Flexity Freedom LRVs undergoing testing on the Valley LineĮTS operates a 20.5 km light rail system composed of eighteen stations in two lines. During its time in Edmonton the bus was numbered 6000, but was returned to its original #2242 when returned to Vancouver. In 2008, the city leased a low-floor model of trolley from Coast Mountain Bus Company, Vancouver's bus operating company, for testing of possible benefits of low-floor trolleys over hybrid diesel buses. However, city council decided in April 2009 that trolley bus service would be discontinued earlier than had been planned, in order to reduce the city's expected $35 million deficit that year.
On 18 June 2008, city council voted 7 to 6 in favour of phasing out the trolley system between 20. The 47 vehicles remaining in use in 2008 were from an order of 100 manufactured in 1981-2 by Brown Boveri & Company (BBC), using bodies and chassis supplied to BBC by GM. The trolley bus system used a mixture of Ohio Brass and K&M Elastic (Swiss) suspension for holding up the overhead wires. In Edmonton, trolley buses were often referred to simply as "trolleys". By the end of October of that year, service had started on another route running to 99 St/Whyte Ave via the Low Level Bridge. Trolley bus service in Edmonton started on 24 September 1939, operating on route 5 from 101 St/Jasper Ave to 95 St/111 Ave. The service was re-named to Edmonton Transit Service in 2016. The transit service's name was changed to Edmonton Transportation Service in July 1946, but just a year later it was re-named to Edmonton Transit System. Also in 1908, ERR acquired the Strathcona Radial Tramway Company Limited, and also began servicing the villages of North Edmonton and Calder.
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