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Intercity Bus Services

With the increased traffic on Highway 6 and 7 and the school year about start, i can't believe GO transit didn't add any bus routes for the university towns. Kitchener-Waterloo/Guelph/ Hamilton.


www.guelphtoday.com

We don't need your promises, we need a damn bus to Kitchener

This week's Market Squared gets angry about the [expletive deleted] lack of action on improving regional transit.
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gabe said:
With the increased traffic on Highway 6 and 7 and the school year about start, i can't believe GO transit didn't add any bus routes for the university towns. Kitchener-Waterloo/Guelph/ Hamilton.


www.guelphtoday.com

We don't need your promises, we need a damn bus to Kitchener

This week's Market Squared gets angry about the [expletive deleted] lack of action on improving regional transit.
www.guelphtoday.com www.guelphtoday.com
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They could do that, it's just a matter of Mandate from Metrolinx.

Didn't any private companies decide to that route?
 
Bordercollie said:
They could do that, it's just a matter of Mandate from Metrolinx.

Didn't any private companies decide to that route?
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Wellington Township and Waterloo Region could also get together and fund a service similar to Linx in Simcoe County.
 
Bordercollie said:
That could take 5 years.
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If Metrolinx does it, it'll take quite a bit longer than 5 years. A province-wide intercity network (Mike Schreiner has zero ability to obtain funding for a Guelph specific project) is a huge undertaking/distraction at a time when they've already got a half-dozen major projects being tendered which directly impact Doug's re-election.
 
Metrolinx should set aside fund to “periodically” run potential route. Actual ridership will speak for themselves. It doesn’t hurt to run hourly between Kitchener and Guelph for a month, even a week to test its popularity.
 
Tristen said:
Metrolinx should set aside fund to “periodically” run potential route. Actual ridership will speak for themselves. It doesn’t hurt to run hourly between Kitchener and Guelph for a month, even a week to test its popularity.
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Kitchener to Guelph falls well within their current scope of servicing the GTA. Extending the existing 31/33 to cover that portion of the existing train route makes sense.

The GuelphToday article mentions a half-dozen other routes which are in the legislated scope of MTO and not Metrolinx. Putting Metrolinx on them would be a huge undertaking politically.
 
For all the talk of connecting the GTHA, Metrolinx doesn’t not do well on the “H” part of things. The Niagara train skips Hamilton, or does a time consuming back-up procedure at West Harbour.

It doesn’t connect Hamilton to Guelph. But it did go to Brantford recently. If it can run a bus to Brantford from McMaster, why can’t it run one from University of Guelph to Kitchener?
 
Took the T:GO Transit service from Woodstock to Ingersoll today. Only 2 passengers on my mid-day trip. The bus seats 20 but has been limited to 10 during the pandemic.

The fare was quite expensive - $10 - considering a cab ride for the same distance is $20. However, it’s not zone based, so you can technically go a lot further for the same price.

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Oh god i hope so! This country desperately needs bus service. So many cities and towns have been cut off. Greyhound was an affordable way to get to places without a car.
 
Most communities in Ontario that lost their Greyhound service in 2018 and 2020 are connected again by ONTC, or new private operators. The only real exceptions are the Highway 7 East corridor via Peterborough, Madoc, and Perth (which had daily service) and the Highway 28/62 corridor between Peterborough and Pembroke, which had 3x/week service. I would really like to see a Highway 7 service return to service the towns and cities along that corridor.

Coach Canada (Megabus) abandoned the Highway 8 route completely (Hamilton-Kitchener) and previously abandoned Guelph-Hamilton. Those routes are not being picked up by anyone yet, though GO would be a logical operator.
 
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