Via Transportation, Inc. Class A (VIA) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by. My name is Kate and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the VIA Q1 2026 earnings call. All lights have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to redraw your question, press star one again. Thank you. We will now start the presentation. Journeys for everybody, homes for everybody, jobs for everybody. Transport is clearly a key factor in bringing all of those things together. Before coming to Remix, planning bus services was very challenging and time-consuming. Using Remix has enabled us to do that in a much more efficient way. We're now giving access to residents 7-7, Monday to Saturday, which they wouldn't have had previously. Via gave us confidence in terms of the specialist service that we run here at West Midlands Bus on Demand. It's great to have the same system to be able to do the phone booking and the app. And we know that our residents are really benefiting from the partnership that we have with Via. We were serving about 100,000 residents or so then, and now we're serving over 300,000. And we've seen the ridership increase in a similar factor as well. The relationship with CityMapper is growing. We are looking forward to utilising the data that it will provide for our network planning exercises. When the first sort of commingling service went live, the overall patronage collectively was 30% higher. So I'm excited about sort of going faster. Good morning and welcome everyone to VIA's first quarter 2026 earnings call. I'm Gabby McCaig, VIA's Chief Corp...