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Source » CBC
In May 2023, 15.9 million Canadians or four in five workers were commuting to a location outside their home for work, up from both 2021 (+3.3 million) and 2016 (+457,000), reports Statistics Canada. 82.6% of commuters (13.2 million people) mainly use a car, truck, or van to travel to work.
Average regular gas price (¢/litre) in Canada (as at August 5, 2023. Source » GasBuddy)
Designed in France by rolling stock manufacturer Alstom, the zero-emissions train runs on electricity produced by mixing hydrogen with oxygen, meaning that moisture its only waste product. Alstom said Europe has already placed an order for 41 hydrogen trains.
Hamilton transit ridership is close to pre-pandemic levels for the first time since COVID-19 emptied HSR buses three years ago.
More than 1.5 million riders hopped on an HSR bus last month — or about 94 per cent of the pre-pandemic ridership recorded in June of 2019, which is considered the city’s “benchmark” year before COVID.
Statistics Canada says the new visualization tool presents the most recent data available from the Census of Population for census subdivisions.
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