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1. TRANSIT FARES IN
2007 TARIFS DES
SERVICES DE TRANSPORT EN COMMUN 2007 |
Committee recommendation
That Council approve the
fare structure in Attachment 1, that represents a two percent increase in
average fares.
Recommandation
du Comité
Que le Conseil approuve la
structure tarifaire présentée dans la pièce jointe 1, qui représente en moyenne
une augmentation des tarifs de deux pour cent.
Documentation
1.
Deputy City Manager, Planning,
Transit and the Environment, report dated
28 February 2007 (ACS2007-PTE-TRA-0007).
2.
Extract of
Minutes 4, Transit Committee meeting of March 7, 2007.
Report to/Rapport au:
Transit Committee/Comité
des transports
and
Council/et au Conseil
28
February 2007/le 28 février 2007
Submitted by/Soumis par: Nancy Schepers, Deputy City
Manager/Directrice municipale adjointe
Planning, Transit and the Environment/Urbanisme, Transport en
commun et Environnement
Contact/Personne-ressource: A.
Mercier, Director / Directeur, Transit Services
/ Services du transport en commun
842-3636 ext. 2271,
alain.mercier@ottawa.ca
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City Wide |
Ref N°:
ACS2007-PTE-TRA-0007 |
SUBJECT: TRANSIT FARES IN 2007
OBJET: TARIFS
DES SERVICES DE TRANSPORT EN COMMUN 2007
REPORT
RECOMMENDATION
That the Transit Committee recommend Council approve the fare structure in Attachment 1, that represents a two percent increase in average fares.
RECOMMANDATION DU RAPPORT
Que le Comité du transport en
commun recommande au Conseil d'approuver la structure tarifaire présentée dans
la pièce jointe 1, qui représente en moyenne une augmentation des tarifs de
deux pour cent.
BACKGROUND
On February 26, 2007, Council approved the City’s
2007 budget, which included a two percent transit fare increase to be
implemented on July 1, 2007. The draft
2007 budget report contained a detailed breakdown of the increases proposed for
individual fare types for a 7.5 percent fare increase. This level of detailed information was not
available for other fare increases, although some approximate numbers were
provided in a memorandum to Councillors from the Deputy City Manager, Planning
Transit and the Environment of February 19, 2007 to give an indication of what
the impact of other fare increases would be on individual customer fares.
This report provides details of the recommended fare
structure for the consideration of Committee and Council.
DISCUSSION
With the approval of the two percent fare increase,
staff has developed a fare chart to achieve this average fare increase while
meeting four objectives:
·
maximizing
transit ridership;
·
simplifying
the fare structure;
·
minimizing
implementation costs; and
·
making
a small adjustment to the differential between regular and express passes to
better reflect the costs of providing service.
The recommendation (Attachment 1) is to maintain
ticket fares at their current levels.
Increases in price tend to have a greater impact on ticket users than
pass users and so maintaining them at their current price and increasing passes
at around three percent would maximize ridership, while resulting in an overall
average fare increase of two percent.
It is also proposed to maintain cash fares at $3.00, which will have little impact on revenues given that only four percent of trips are paid for with cash. Keeping cash at $3 for regular routes means that the price cards displayed at the bus doorway will remain unchanged.
The percentage increases for express passes are slightly higher than for regular passes in recognition of lower financial performance of express routes.
An alternate fare scenario has been developed (Attachment 2) in which individual tickets are increased to $1.00 and the increases in pass prices are lower. However, this would result in slightly lower ridership (about 100,000 in 2007) and is not recommended.
CONSULTATION/PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
The 2007 Transit Plan was presented to the Pedestrian and Transit Advisory Committee. While supportive of the service plan, the committee strongly disapproved of the proposed 7.5 percent fare increase and approved a motion that annual fare increases should not exceed the annual increase in the cost of living (CPI).
TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN
Keeping transit fare increases at the level of inflation will avoid ridership losses due to the impact of the elasticity of demand with respect to price. The ridership target for 2007 is 94.7 million.
FINANCIAL
IMPLICATIONS
Overall,
the proposed fare structure will result in an increase in the average transit
fare of two percent to $1.32 and the fare increase will add $1.3 million to
revenues in 2007 and $2.6 million in a full year.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
Attachment 1 – Recommended Fare Structure
Attachment 2 – Alternative Fare Structure
DISPOSITION
Following approval by Council of the fare structure for July 1, 2007, staff will order passes and tickets and develop customer information to support the implementation of the new fares.
RECOMMENDED FARE STRUCTURE ATTACHMENT
1
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Transit Fares
& Fees |
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Fare Type |
Current Price |
Price Effective July 01, 2007 |
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Price |
% Increase |
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Regular Adult Pass |
$ 71.25 |
$ 73.00 |
2.5% |
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Express Adult Pass |
$ 87.00 |
$ 90.00 |
3.4% |
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Rural Adult Pass |
$ 110.50 |
$ 114.00 |
3.2% |
|
Regular Student Pass |
$ 58.25 |
$ 59.75 |
2.6% |
|
Express Student Pass |
$ 67.75 |
$ 70.00 |
3.3% |
|
Regular Student Semester Pass |
$ 216.00 |
$ 221.50 |
2.5% |
|
Express Student Semester Pass |
$ 251.00 |
$ 259.00 |
3.2% |
|
Rural Student Pass |
$ 88.50 |
$ 91.00 |
2.8% |
|
Senior Pass |
$ 28.25 |
$ 29.00 |
2.7% |
|
Community Pass |
$ 28.25 |
$ 29.00 |
2.7% |
|
Day Pass (On the Bus) |
$ 7.25 |
$ 7.25 |
0.0% |
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Day Pass (If pre-purchased) |
$ 6.50 |
$ 6.50 |
0.0% |
|
Cash Adult/trip |
$ 3.00 |
$ 3.00 |
0.0% |
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Cash Express Route/trip |
$ 4.00 |
$ 4.00 |
0.0% |
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Cash Rural Express/trip |
$ 5.00 |
$ 5.00 |
0.0% |
|
Cash Child (6-11 yrs.)/trip |
$ 1.50 |
$ 1.50 |
0.0% |
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Ticket Adult/trip |
$ 1.90 |
$ 1.90 |
0.0% |
|
Ticket Express Route/trip |
$ 2.85 |
$ 2.85 |
0.0% |
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Ticket Rural Express/trip |
$ 3.80 |
$ 3.80 |
0.0% |
|
Ticket Child (6-11 yrs)/trip |
$ 0.95 |
$ 0.95 |
0.0% |
|
Regular Student Annual Pass |
$ 559.25 |
$ 573.60 |
2.6% |
|
Express Student Annual Pass |
$ 650.50 |
$ 672.00 |
3.3% |
|
Adult Regular Annual Pass |
$ 769.50 |
$ 788.40 |
2.5% |
|
Adult Express Annual Pass |
$ 939.60 |
$ 972.00 |
3.4% |
|
Adult Regular Ecopass |
$ 60.56 |
$ 62.05 |
2.5% |
|
Adult Express Ecopass |
$ 73.95 |
$ 76.50 |
3.4% |
|
Rural Ecopass |
$ 93.93 |
$ 96.90 |
3.2% |
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Senior Ecopass |
$ 24.01 |
$ 24.65 |
2.7% |
|
O-Train Ticket |
$ 2.25 |
$ 2.25 |
0.0% |
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Adult Photo I.D. |
$ 7.00 |
$ 7.25 |
3.6% |
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Student Photo I.D. |
$ 5.00 |
$ 5.25 |
5.0% |
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Regular Park & Ride Permit |
$ 17.10 |
$ 17.50 |
2.3% |
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Gold Pass Park & Ride Permit |
$ 39.40 |
$ 40.25 |
2.2% |
ALTERNATIVE FARE STRUCTURE
ATTACHMENT 2
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Transit Fares
& Fees |
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Fare Type |
Current Price |
Price Effective July 01, 2007 |
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Price |
% Increase |
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Regular Adult Pass |
$ 71.25 |
$ 72.25 |
1.4% |
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Express Adult Pass |
$ 87.00 |
$ 89.00 |
2.3% |
|
Rural Adult Pass |
$ 110.50 |
$ 112.75 |
2.0% |
|
Regular Student Pass |
$ 58.25 |
$ 59.00 |
1.3% |
|
Express Student Pass |
$ 67.75 |
$ 69.25 |
2.2% |
|
Regular Student Semester Pass |
$ 216.00 |
$ 219.00 |
1.4% |
|
Express Student Semester Pass |
$ 251.00 |
$ 257.00 |
2.4% |
|
Rural Student Pass |
$ 88.50 |
$ 90.25 |
2.0% |
|
Senior Pass |
$ 28.25 |
$ 28.75 |
1.8% |
|
Community Pass |
$ 28.25 |
$ 28.75 |
1.8% |
|
Day Pass (On the Bus) |
$ 7.25 |
$ 7.25 |
0.0% |
|
Day Pass (If pre-purchased) |
$ 6.50 |
$ 6.50 |
0.0% |
|
Cash Adult/trip |
$ 3.00 |
$ 3.00 |
0.0% |
|
Cash Express Route/trip |
$ 4.00 |
$ 4.00 |
0.0% |
|
Cash Rural Express/trip |
$ 5.00 |
$ 5.00 |
0.0% |
|
Cash Child (6-11 yrs.)/trip |
$ 1.50 |
$ 1.50 |
0.0% |
|
Ticket Adult/trip |
$ 1.90 |
$ 2.00 |
5.3% |
|
Ticket Express Route/trip |
$ 2.85 |
$ 3.00 |
5.3% |
|
Ticket Rural Express/trip |
$ 3.80 |
$ 4.00 |
5.3% |
|
Ticket Child (6-11 yrs)/trip |
$ 0.95 |
$ 1.00 |
5.3% |
|
Regular Student Annual Pass |
$ 559.25 |
$ 566.40 |
1.3% |
|
Express Student Annual Pass |
$ 650.50 |
$ 664.80 |
2.2% |
|
Adult Regular Annual Pass |
$ 769.50 |
$ 780.30 |
1.4% |
|
Adult Express Annual Pass |
$ 939.60 |
$ 961.20 |
2.3% |
|
Adult Regular Ecopass |
$ 60.56 |
$ 61.41 |
1.4% |
|
Adult Express Ecopass |
$ 73.95 |
$ 75.65 |
2.3% |
|
Rural Ecopass |
$ 93.93 |
$ 95.84 |
2.0% |
|
Senior Ecopass |
$ 24.01 |
$ 24.44 |
1.8% |
|
O-Train Ticket |
$ 2.25 |
$ 2.25 |
0.0% |
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|
Adult Photo I.D. |
$ 7.00 |
$ 7.25 |
3.6% |
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Student Photo I.D. |
$ 5.00 |
$ 5.25 |
5.0% |
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|
Regular Park & Ride Permit |
$ 17.10 |
$ 17.50 |
2.3% |
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Gold Pass Park & Ride Permit |
$ 39.40 |
$ 40.25 |
2.2% |