Edmonton Transit System
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| Slogan | Your Every Day Way |
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| Parent | City of Edmonton |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Locale | PO Box 2610, Stn. Main Edmonton, AB |
| Service area | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Service type | Public Transit |
| Routes | 209; 2 LRT routes |
| Stops | 6803 |
| Hubs | 26 |
| Stations | 18 (LRT) ~7000 bus stops |
| Fleet | 928 buses (As of 2016) 94 light rail vehicles 98 DATS vehicles |
| Daily ridership | 397,402 (weekday) |
| Fuel type | Bus: diesel, electric (trial),CNG (trial) LRT: electric |
| Operator | City of Edmonton |
| Chief executive | Eddie Robar (Manager) |
| Website | Official site |
The Edmonton Transit System, also called ETS, is the public transit service owned and operated by the city of Edmonton, Alberta. It operates Edmonton's bus and light rail systems.
ETS provides service on buses and light-rail transit within the City of Edmonton limits, in addition to Fort Saskatchewan, Spruce Grove, and the Edmonton Garrison at Namao. It also provides connections to suburban transit services operated by the City of St. Albert and Strathcona County. Another trial service to Beaumont in 2003-2004 was discontinued due to low ridership. ETS provides service to the Edmonton International Airport, while Leduc Transit provides bus service to Leduc.
ETS operates an entire fleet of accessible low floor buses, which have been progressively introduced into the system since 1993. These include the 858 40-foot (12 m) New Flyer D40LF, and the 33 60-foot (18 m) D60LF articulated models.
ETS uses the timed-transfer system, where suburban feeder routes run to a transit centre, and passengers can then transfer to a base route/LRT to the city centre or the university. Some feeder routes provide direct express service to and from the city centre.
The Ookspress was a free express route that ferried people from Churchill Station directly to the main NAIT campus that primarily used electric buses. The Ookspress was cancelled when the Metro Line opened on September 6, 2015.
A new feature on ETS, Smart buses have since July 2013, seen operating on several routes, the trial routes were 111 which went from West Edmonton Mall to Downtown and 128 which went from Castle Downs to University, This system respectively used 45 buses. As of November 2014, there are 22 routes equipped,. Real time departure boards are installed at University Transit Centre as well as West Edmonton Mall Transit Centre, as well as real time bus arrival information on personal computers and mobile data, branded together as ETS LIVE. A mobile app, ETS Live to Go, has been released. Over 750 buses have Smart Bus technology as of May 2016. The buses equipped possess automatic audio visual stop announcers of the next bus stop described by its nearest intersection, a computer aided dispatch which informs the control centre where a bus is, as well as monitor incidents. Mobile data terminals inform the drivers how to drive a route if they are unfamiliar, as well as if they are late or not. The buses equipped have internal covert cameras to monitor safety. City council has approved funding for Smartbus deployment on all bus routes as of 2019 and 2020. On September 4th 2016, all 928 busses in the ETS fleet had been fully equipped with Smart bus technology, earlier than initially planned.
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