From Oh The Urbanity!!
Calgary C-Train Carries More Riders Than the Rail Transit of Bart, Muni Metro and Caltrain
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I couldn’t easily find the data to verify this, but a different YouTuber argued that high ridership in Australian and Canadian cities has a lot to do with job density in the city centers.
They're using 2023 Q4 from the APTA https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf
The ridership numbers are easy to find lol. I’m talking about the claim that “Canadian and Australian have higher job density downtown than American cities.” Anecdotally, the Bay Area is famous for their huge tech campuses in the burbs, but I’ve no idea how the job distribution is in similarly sized places to Calgary and Edmonton like Nashville, Jacksonville, Raleigh, etc.
Ops misread what you wrote. Yeah, Calgary main Oil and gas headquarters are located in downtown.
Yeah, I don't really buy that quote that much. An issue right now, at least in Toronto, is that office vacancies are at an all time high.
After the pandemic, transit culture shifted from a "job commuting" service, into more of a leisure/going out type of service. It gets busy during the evenings, Friday nights, and the weekends. Anecdotally speaking, the train gets sorta crowded at midnight.
Rush Hour still exists, and the job commuting is still alive, but it hasn't recovered into pre-pandemic levels, while Friday night & weekend ridership increased significantly.
I think the U.S' main cities has more job commuters than many Canadian cities today, but that's mostly in part of a culture change rather than transit failing.