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25 is all stops, UW to Square One.
One of the letters (25F?) goes to York University via Bramalea instead.
One of the letters meets the Milton GO Train.
The rest of the letters all go UW to Square One, with skipping various stops along the way.
Sorry, you caught me Smile When I was looking it up before, I totally missed the letters in the timetable. I could see them on the map and it confused the heck out of me.

Is it some universal code that busses have to be impossibly difficult to figure out but trains are dead simple!?
"Right now, Cambridge has two morning peak and two afternoon peak GO buses from the Ainslie Street terminal."

Which route is this considered? I can't find it in the schedule.
Uh... I think that's an error? That would be news to me.
And me. Would be some detour coming down from Highway 8.
(04-29-2016, 10:02 PM)Canard Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry, you caught me Smile  When I was looking it up before, I totally missed the letters in the timetable.  I could see them on the map and it confused the heck out of me.

Is it some universal code that busses have to be impossibly difficult to figure out but trains are dead simple!?

Yes, yes it is. That's one of the reasons I preferred LRT to BRT. Somehow the "flexibility" of buses are actually a disadvantage.
The extra rush hour buses for Cambridge are good news. What was really interesting to me this week was that, with the new Go service in Brantford, it will have better transit access to Toronto than Waterloo Region does.

After all, the Brantford service is all-day and weekend to Aldershot, where trains go to Union in an hour (the express trains are less) with pretty good frequency throughout the day. We don’t know the running time of the Brantford service yet, but if we guess forty-five minutes to Aldershot it will mean two hours or so from Brantford to Toronto. This is about the same as from Cambridge to Toronto or Kitchener to Toronto, but with much more frequent service.

I’m surprised by the sheer number of buses. I hope it’s a success and they continue to receive that much or even more frequency. For them to have access to both McMaster and the Lakeshore line is great. But it seems odd for a city of 100,000 to have arguably better service to Toronto than a metro region of 500,000 when they are about the same distance away.
Is GO service from Brantford aimed primarily at commuters to Toronto or at commuters to Hamilton?
They have been talking about it for a while, and the largest single group being targeted seems to be riders who live in Brantford and study or work at McMaster. I expect there would be a larger number that continue on to connect to the Lakeshore at Aldershot than HSR to get elsewhere in Hamilton, though.
I wonder when Lancaster will get the necessary grade separation? It's brutal down that way when the snail trains are at the crossing, slowing, reversing, just stopping for a whlle.
With the hoped for increased service along this line you would think that there would be a plan to do one crossing every 3 years or so - although every 3 years might be ambitious given the Weber one is still not done and the other competing priorities across the region and city.
Would Lancaster be an overpass, in a hypothetical world where it gets grade separation?

A few crossings would likely be underpass material, including Duke and Bingeman Centre Drive.

What does that leave: Park, Strange, and St Leger?
(05-04-2016, 10:53 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: [ -> ]With the hoped for increased service along this line you would think that there would be a plan to do one crossing every 3 years or so - although every 3 years might be ambitious given the Weber one is still not done and the other competing priorities across the region and city.

It's pretty phenomenal to think that there have been, in 3 years, two major grade separations (Weber and King) undertaken.

As far as I can tell, Kitchener has never grade-separated an existing, urban, level crossing on the mainline before.  Even the Margaret St bridge has been there for over a hundred years:

Quote:The 1959 bridge replaced an older wood and iron overpass whose history probably went back fewer than 40 years to the mid-1920s.

It, in turn, had taken the place of a much older and smaller wooden span at Margaret Avenue that, from 1902 on, had carried the Berlin and Bridgeport Electric Street Railway over the Grand Trunk Railway tracks.

There may have been an even earlier bridge but historical documentation is slim.

Kitchener has been focused on suburban expansion, with all grade separations being of the vein of "grade separate rural road as we upgrade it to suburban arterial".  I recall reading about the politicking involved with the Westmount Rd crossing.

Couple this with the gradual decrease of rail traffic through the 60s-90s, and I'm sure that it's just something that seemed like it wasn't that big an issue.  King St, Weber St, and Lancaster had always had to wait for trains, and for decades, those delays were getting fewer and further between.

And of course, on top of the King and Weber ones, we're also about to get the Edna-connector and Bruce-extension to Wellington as part of the Highway 7 work.
Lancaster would have to be an overpass. I've thought about it as I drive through the intersection every day, and there's no conceivable way they'd be able to make it an underpass without significantly lowering the entire Victoria / Lancaster intersection as well.

I would Love for Duke to get an underpass, but I don't see it happening. There's nowhere near enough traffic to support it, and the space would be extremely tight (unless the newer shops on the East would be torn down.

The park one is puzzling. I think it needs SOMETHING, but I don't know what you'd be ale to do here. Both an underpass and an overpass would make the entire row of home here completely inaccessible , I'm not sure what could be done.

Now, what I REALLY want to see is something at the rail crossing on Victoria, near Walnut. I strongly dislike that crossing, and it also crosses what I'm sure is the most-used East-West route in the entire city (Victoria St). But really, I would prefer to see all of Victoria brought up to 2 lanes as well, instead of tapering to that terrible pinch point between Walnut and Lawrence that it does now. Traffic is always so rough there. And in the inevitable Ion Phase 3 that will run through here (it's the most voted for Phase 3 route in every unofficial poll), something would have to be done to solve the at-grade rail crossing.
MidTowner Wrote:The extra rush hour buses for Cambridge are good news. What was really interesting to me this week was that, with the new Go service in Brantford, it will have better transit access to Toronto than Waterloo Region does.

After all, the Brantford service is all-day and weekend to Aldershot, where trains go to Union in an hour (the express trains are less) with pretty good frequency throughout the day. We don’t know the running time of the Brantford service yet, but if we guess forty-five minutes to Aldershot it will mean two hours or so from Brantford to Toronto. This is about the same as from Cambridge to Toronto or Kitchener to Toronto, but with much more frequent service.

I’m surprised by the sheer number of buses. I hope it’s a success and they continue to receive that much or even more frequency. For them to have access to both McMaster and the Lakeshore line is great. But it seems odd for a city of 100,000 to have arguably better service to Toronto than a metro region of 500,000 when they are about the same distance away.

Umm...

The proposed Brantford GO bus will run every hour during peak and every 2 hours off-peak/weekends. How is that "much more frequent" or "better service" than our hourly GO bus to Square One (which connects to the 21H/P bus to Union, running every 15-30 minutes)? Not to even mention the frequent weekend express services, and the train meets to/from Milton and Bramalea we already have.