Canadian urban-transit ridership slips 1.6% in July
Canadian urban transit systems carried an estimated 122.5 million passenger trips in July, down 1.6% from a year earlier.
Urban transit systems across Canada carried an estimated 122.5 million passenger trips in July, 1.6% fewer than in the same month a year earlier.
Statistics Canada’s September 21 release estimated that the year-over-year decline represented about two million fewer trips. It was the 14th monthly year-over-year decrease since May 2025, apart from a 3.3% increase in June 2026 that the agency attributed to FIFA World Cup travel in Toronto and Vancouver.
Operating revenue excluding subsidies reached $329.7 million in July, up 1.3% from July 2025. Ridership fell 5.0% from June, a pattern Statistics Canada said is normally associated with summer vacations, fewer students and more active travel.
The monthly survey uses a panel of urban transit companies representing at least 75% of revenue in every province and territory. The national result does not show whether Montréal-area ridership moved in the same direction; agency-level data are published separately in Statistics Canada’s transit tables.
Illustrative image: Canadian urban transit. Photo by Nathalia Segato via Unsplash; resized.
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