aleesia
Active Member
Well, the riders have spoken. The survey results mentioned that service frequency is the most important thing to increase ridership. To maintain the increased ridership, service hours, coverage area, and service reliability are the keys. Well, for me, service frequency, service hours, service area, and service reliability go hand-in-hand-in-hand-in-hand.
41 and 49 are crazy crowded with the GO Train shuttle buses. I think that the only way to get 41, 49, 38, and 91 to get pleasing frequencies and get sustainable amount of riders is to have the Milton GO Train to run 7 days a week. That would mean 32, 62, 64, and 67 will be able to run 7 days a week too.
Drum's criteria is doable, but with some restrictions applied:
- 61 Mavis, 20 Rathburn, and 10 Bristol are good candidates to go under 30-minute service 7 days a week.
- 38 Creditview, 9 Meadowvale, and 44 Mississauga Road can go under 30-minute service during middays. If that happens, 53 will be the only remaining trunk route that has midday service less frequent than 30 minutes.
- The least frequent route during middays, 4 Sherway, could use another bus to move it closer to 30-minute service.
- Almost all routes that run every 16-20 minutes during rush hour are viable for 15-minute service or less during rush hours.
- I think that 43 should revert back to 27, and make it run two-way, so that Britannia passengers of 87 can use this service instead to go to Skymark. Also add the 38A to run during rush hours and end at Erindale GO, doubling Creditview's rush hour frequency to 11 minutes, to get a reliable connection from route 35/35A that goes to the subway. Add to that an even more boosted Eglinton service during rush hours, and we can say bye-bye to 87.
905ers are more demanding when it comes to transit service, since they have their own car anyways. Once they have a bad experience in transit, such as not being able to get a seat on the bus, or the bus being late, they will revert back to driving and will not ever think about taking transit again. So I really think that once the seats of the bus are about to fill, increase service. That will prevent passengers to be left behind during times of anomaly. And obviously, my solution will not work for 19, 110, and 88, which are normally overcrowded.
I find it very surprising that 28 Confederation is more frequent than 26 Burnhamthorpe on Sundays...
I also see some people taking the 57 during the first northbound run, which is at around 1:30 PM. They could deploy some minibuses there for at least midday service, and bypass the Infield area.
Well, that's if you live west of Winston Churchill. If you live east of it, it's not 23-hour service, more like 21. But sliding the frequencies to every 20 minutes during those gaps is not bad. After all, Dundas already has 14-minute late night service.
Same thing for Burnhamthrope with 17 min frequency. It can slide down to 25 during the overnight hours.
Same goes for Hurontario, Bloor, Dixie, and Westwood.
Bristol already has that number. It won't obviously be cancelled, maybe until the LRT comes in, which makes it ripe for route restructuring.
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And concerning fares, there is not that much increase, so I say good job MiWay with regards to this matter.
- $ 2.70 adult ticket is parallel to that of the TTC.
- Good thing that the adult monthly pass is frozen. Finally, they have taken notice that they are getting wayy above the rest of the 905, and getting close to the TTC's $126.50.
- The adult weekly pass got over the $30 threshold, but it's still miles away from the TTC's $37.50
- Thank heavens that they will not increase the cash fare to $3.50. This will make YRT stand out with their $3.75 cash fare.
