CALGARY – A handful of new buses will be shipped to our city next year to replace some of Calgary Transit’s aging fleet.
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Airdrie’s growing transit system
With a population nearing 50,000, Airdrie Transit has seen much change since the first bus ran in 1980, operating three buses for a population of just under 6,000.
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Council reconsiders CrossIron shuttle
Council was presented with a second proposal for a weekend and holiday shuttle bus service to CrossIron Mills mall, Sept. 3.
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Officials agree to regional transit
Blackfalds and Lacombe councils have agreed to move forward on the road to a new regional transit service.
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Simons: Greyhound prepares to pull out of its downtown Edmonton station. Destination? TBA.
EDMONTON – No one could describe Edmonton’s downtown Greyhound depot as a beauty spot.
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Edmonton transit use increases, but most workers still drive to jobs alone
EDMONTON – The number of Edmontonians taking public transit to work has climbed over five years, but the vast majority of employees still drive themselves alone, according to numbers from the 2011 National Household Survey released Wednesday.
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Bethel Transit building starts
Provincial and federal politicians joined Strathcona County Mayor Linda Osinchuk to kick off the official construction of Sherwood Park’s newest transit station on Tuesday, May 14.
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More people commuting into city’s downtown, survey shows
EDMONTON – Growing numbers of people are going downtown to study, work or unwind, but fewer of them are taking a car, a city transportation study shows.
About 49,600 commuters stayed in Edmonton’s core during a typical weekday last September, up 24 per cent from a similar study done in 2009, according to the central business district cordon count released last month.
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Fort McMurray turns up heat in bus shelters
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo wants 300 heated bus shelters in place across Fort McMurray by the end of this year in a bid to lure city commuters and oilsands workers out of their cars.
The municipality’s transit services department has already installed about 140 glass-enclosed shelters around the city.
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Council to debate storage facility for fleet of 400 natural gas buses
A day after Calgary Transit showed off its first two natural gas buses, a council committee will debate a storage facility for about 398 more.
The city needs a massive new bus storage facility to handle transit expansions. With prices for natural gas stubbornly low, Calgary Transit is betting that this source of long-term grief for the city’s energy sector can translate into long-term fuel cost savings.
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