That list by drum has WAY too many stops. This is LRT, not bus service. Stops should be at major intersections only.
So for example:
- Cooksville GO
- Central Parkway
- Burnhamthorpe
- Robert Speck
No need at all to stop at Fairview, Elm, or Matthew's Gate.
To walk to any of these from the stops I listed above would you take you 2 minutes.
My stops are marked ## and the list is what there today.
Cooksville GO stop service both Hillcrest area and the GO Station. It will be a longer walking distance for the TLK kids with no stop at Hillcrest like there is today.
Fairview service the ring roads and roads that have next to no access to the Cooksville station other than a long walk over 1,000m
Central Parkway sees no bus connection and a very low ridership stop in the first place. Can be serve by Elm or Fariview as it would be in the walking distance.
Elm sees way more ridership than CP as well been service by #8 and #3 buses. You will never see 3 go back to its old route.
When you look at the transferring between 19 and 26, you are lucky to see 100 riders doing this a day going east and less than that for west.
I fail to mark Robert Speck as the walking distance to Sq One is not much more than it is today from MCC terminal. Now how do you connect to the other bus route with the existing terminal stay where it is become a major issue if a new terminal is not built near 19. The current terminal is out data and will never handle the future ridership.
AS I said before, you need to understand where your ridership points are to say this should be here or not.
Just because there is no residential north of Matheson doesn't mean you will not have riders going to/from work. New zoning requires building to be more than 1 story and prefer to be 4 min. This has happen in the Airport corporation centre.
If you look at the current 202 ridership for your stops, next to no riders getting on or off. There is no stop at Cooksville and something I have try to get before 202 came out.
Find sometime to ride the 19/202 to do a ridership count for stops to see how many riders get on/off and it will surprise you. I have years of data to back my claim up. Even look at off peak and the weekend as they tell a story too.
Pick some points at the far end of a 400m and 500m radius to see what the real walking distance is for your stops.
NOTE: If I was to use CP in place of Elm, 15 minute walking distance. Using Burnhamthorpe 18 minutes. If these changes take place, I'm packing transit in and going back to the car.