djsurflfs
New Member
Chatting with the planners at the PIC last night, I think they really wanted to go to Viscount for this year but couldn't secure enough funding, which is a shame.
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Chatting with the planners at the PIC last night, I think they really wanted to go to Viscount for this year but couldn't secure enough funding, which is a shame.
DKsan
Active Member
Got overlooked by the TTC's announcement, but Brampton Transit will also be buying eight electric buses and four overhead chargers to roll out in Spring 2019.
They're being deployed on the 26 Mount Pleasant (a 12k round trip community route) and the 23 Sandalwood (a 60km round trip core grid route). The plan is to to use 2 electric buses on the 26 at all times, and for all off-peaks trips on the 23 Sandalwood to use only electric buses (I'm assuming that during peak operation, it will be a mixed of diesel buses and electric buses).
They're being deployed on the 26 Mount Pleasant (a 12k round trip community route) and the 23 Sandalwood (a 60km round trip core grid route). The plan is to to use 2 electric buses on the 26 at all times, and for all off-peaks trips on the 23 Sandalwood to use only electric buses (I'm assuming that during peak operation, it will be a mixed of diesel buses and electric buses).
Allandale25
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Allandale25
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TOareaFan
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Ho hum....just the unglamorous work of serving a growing ridership with more buses, more often going to more places!
TOareaFan
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Sandpit
Active Member
It's very glamorous compared to YRT.
TOareaFan
Superstar
You see, it is not...the glamour and headlines come in building the big infrastructure projects....the busways and the transitways and the like......what is "unglamorous" is realizing that buses carry passengers not busways......and quietly just making more routes make more sense for more people is what drives annual double-digit increases in ridership.
If/when, Brampton gets around to building separated lanes along queen for their 501 services....there will already be huge ridership waiting for it and you will see immediate benefit.......ridership built on bus frequency and comfort.
In the old days it would have been described as making sure the horse was in front of the cart
TOareaFan
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Transit ridership was up 14% in 2018 from 2017. Annual ridership was over 31 million last year.
http://www.brampton.ca/EN/residents/transit/About-Us/Pages/RidershipStats.aspx
http://www.brampton.ca/EN/residents/transit/About-Us/Pages/RidershipStats.aspx
Northern Light
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That's a torrid pace of growth! If they sustain it for another 2 years and change they will have doubled ridership levels in less than 7 years.
narduch
Senior Member
Why aren't the other transit agencies copying Brampton?
innsertnamehere
Superstar
because other municipalities don't want to spend the money that Brampton did to get that sort of ridership.
Burlington did recently hire the person who lead the Brampton ridership growth strategy though, so perhaps we will see something similar there.
TOareaFan
Superstar
that may be true of some agencies (I don't know) but I do see other places spending money on, even, greater levels than Brampton.....but the "cool" spend on infrastructure as opposed to frequencies does not seem to have as big of an impact.
Allandale25
Senior Member
^ By "greater levels" are you referring to capital as opposed to operating?