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I am not reposting all the bus service changes, but will highlight some of the larger ones:
Hopefully these cancellations will deal with the "dragging on" aspects of the project. Short term pain, long term gain.This is terrible news -- cancelling off-peak and weekend trains right before the summer when they are used the most. Does anyone have a sense of how long this will last? The work on the Stouffville tracks and stations has really been dragging on and this is so disappointing.
Hopefully these cancellations will deal with the "dragging on" aspects of the project. Short term pain, long term gain.
Glad they decided to put Niagara express service on the schedule this time instead of just randomly running express trips when there were too many people last year.
Not sarcasm. Last April, they often had to run multiple buses to Niagara even though they had a single milk run on the schedule. This year, they actually added express service to the schedule. Much easier to plan when the express service is actually on the schedule instead of a surprise express trip when you get to Burlington GO.Sarcasm or did I miss something?
Route 17 is a huge deal, because it's the first GO bus route that completely goes against the 55-year old model of running a Toronto-centric network. I'm really impressed it's going all the way from Kitchener-Waterloo to Hamilton GO Centre via Guelph and McMaster. So that's a big win.
Weekend Kitchener train service is also a huge deal, and proof that GO had the capacity the whole time through Brampton's CN trackage. The weekend Route 30 service makes it a reasonable service between Toronto and Kitchener/Waterloo, and a lot faster than the old Route 21/25 transfer at Square One.
The permanent Route 21 redirection to the Lakeshore Line is unfortunate, and I think it shows that more than ever, there needs to be major expansion on the Milton corridor, at least to Erindale, if not all the way. What it does do at least is times the train connections properly, takes the guesswork out of travel, and eliminates the traffic congestion issue on summer weekends that had the ad hoc diversions on Route 21 and 31 that no one liked. Another thing to come out of it is a revived Milton-Oakville bus connection, and a much more simplified Route 21 service pattern.
It looks like the only stop in Waterloo is at Laurier. Seems weird that they wouldn't connect to an LRT station. It seems very student-focused, at the expense of other riders.I love that the new Route 17 is coming in. It's a great first step, but not totally satisfied because a) it's only on weekdays, and b) it's to Waterloo directly, with no direct dropoff to downtown Kitchener on the way (it's just a connecting LRT ride away, but still. But I'll take it, still a huge improvement.
It’s why people buy cars and stick with them. Transit is not reliable nor predictable.This is terrible news -- cancelling off-peak and weekend trains right before the summer when they are used the most. Does anyone have a sense of how long this will last? The work on the Stouffville tracks and stations has really been dragging on and this is so disappointing.
Copium suggests that its not summer yet, and it could be reinstated in June when summer actually starts.This is terrible news -- cancelling off-peak and weekend trains right before the summer when they are used the most. Does anyone have a sense of how long this will last? The work on the Stouffville tracks and stations has really been dragging on and this is so disappointing.
It looks like the only stop in Waterloo is at Laurier. Seems weird that they wouldn't connect to an LRT station. It seems very student-focused, at the expense of other riders.