Thanks! I was lucky and didn’t have to wait too long haha. Plus the headways on Yonge south of Bernard are decent. That said the headways north of Bernard are quite atrocious, and none of the other Viva routes are good either (especially Viva orange which is something like twice an hour off peak). Standard YRT services are generally even worse.
90% agree on the second point - YRT service is really trash and TTC level frequent service would be absolutely amazing. The level of design excellence seen on the Viva BRT routes would also be nice to see elsewhere (like Eglinton for example - those “shelters”). They used very high quality looking pavers and planters. The heated and enclosed shelters are also really nice (though the automatic door to enter the heated shelter wasn’t working today at Bernard NB today for some reason).
That said, I do think they went a bit too far with the design and it’s a bit of a waste of money. Probably worth it in places like VMC, some stretches of Yonge, and Markham Centre, but in the more deserted stretches of the windswept suburban arterial wasteland, maintaining those planters and spending the money on the fancy pavers is definitely not worth the money imo lol. People driving by at 70 km/h in their SUVs aren’t even going to notice.
I also have to lament the painted line bike death lanes which were installed on some of the BRT corridors (like Hwy 7 Vaughan) and the lack of protected intersections (then again, that’s probably too much to expect), as well as how the planters on Yonge are in between the cycle track and sidewalk (instead of being in between the cycle track and roadway, where they would have provided a better buffer)
As for security cameras, I’m pretty sure they’re at all Viva stops. I‘m pretty sure they’re on most buses too.
