In 2016, there were 315 government organizations across Canada, 292 of which were municipal governments, who owned public transit assets.
They also owned 28,140 transit shelters, 13,937 bicycle racks and shelters, 740 passenger stations and terminals, 375 maintenance and storage facilities, 334 park and ride parking lots, 255 passenger drop-off facilities, and 207 exclusive rights-of-ways.
The public transit road and track network amounted to 7,103 single-track kilometres of roads and 1,573 single-track kilometres of rail.
Most of the railcars and buses owned by government organizations were in Ontario (38.8% bus and 49.4% railcars) or Quebec (21.9% bus and 32.5% railcars).
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In 2019, government organizations across Canada owned:
- 17,896 buses of various types
- 3,646 railcars
- 1,281 specialized transit vehicles
- 247 streetcars
- 8 ferries
The majority of park and ride parking lots (75.7%) and passenger drop-off facilities (94.9%) were built in Ontario, Alberta and Quebec.
According to the Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey produced by Statistics Canada in 2016, government organizations reported that 66.4% of all buses were in good or very good condition. For railcars, 61.0% of assets were deemed to be in good or very good condition while only 12.0% of streetcars (all found in Toronto) were reported to be in good condition.