Recent content by Wm Perkins Bull

It turns out I was severely mistaken, while the budget shows them under the transit budget section they aren't actually funded and will only be approved when Council gets a quarterly report on DCs and decides they are a priority to fund with the DC revenue.

The Brampton budget is out and while it features no additional service hours, it also doesn't have any decrease in service hours that were already added (it is likely that some hours budgeted to be added last year were never implemented, and while that means the budgeted hours are theoretically...

Transitways on the 407 and 413 are both listed in official provincial plans, and are consequently included.

Brampton 2051 Mobility Plan has been released, featuring ambitious stuff for Brampton Transit

Tell me when you find out where Diggy Scardust is

No, the reason it is going to Bramalea GO is because the 11/511 has an issue where in the evening, returning from Humber College it is mostly full and can't handle sufficient additional people, which can result in significant accumulations of people stuck at Bramalea GO. Between the 11/504/511...

Yes the UK has a consulate in Toronto, as do many countries https://www.ontario.ca/page/consular-offices

A much easier lift than rebuilding the railway is to pay for LINX to move to Presto and enter into a connecting link agreement with Simcoe County to operate enhanced bus service to Barrie. Presumably they would be interested in free money to operate enhanced service to the big city in the county.

I would suggest that the numbers posted are probably estimates given that the total for the year has five consecutive zeros at the end, and that seems statistically improbable.

Metrolinx's plan is the 501 goes to VMC and VIVA Orange is truncated to VMC. At this point that would be a better use of resources, to give Brampton Transit pick up and drop off privileges on the 501 and have YRT reallocate the service of the VIVA Orange.

If one is interested in a professional historical understanding of the automotive industry in Canada, there is a professional paper here, hosted by the Government of Canada

They are putting a trunk watermain under the Right of way.

The 2000 passengers per hour per direction limitation for mixed operation buses is structurally flawed because it assumes only 40ft buses and they make buses longer than 40ft. The City of Toronto owns a number of them and if you are running a bus more often than every 7.5 minutes they are a very...

She has also stated that bus lanes are a useful interim measure for Steeles. She has regularly exhorted Brampton City Council to start pursuing bus lanes in many locations.

Significant ridership growth started in 2006 and remained reasonably robust until the pandemic, with several lull years.