11-10-2014, 12:41 PM
(11-10-2014, 12:07 PM)nms Wrote:(11-09-2014, 10:07 PM)Waterlooer Wrote: I've been looking through the old GRT bus schedules...
I think it would be neat to see where some of the former local transit routes went. As the urban fabric evolved (housing, offices, commercial, factories built or torn down), how did service change? If you look carefully around town, you can sometimes see an abandoned concrete or asphalt pad where a bus stop used to be.
Does anyone have a feel for how transit (trolley and bus) evolved? What was the peak density of coverage? I would be interested to see how GRT's goal of getting every resident within X00m of a transit stop compares to historical service levels.
Are there any history-minded, transit advocates who are handy with mapping tools who would be interested?
I don't got that for GRT, but I have encountered this for Montreal:
http://www.cat-bus.com/2013/03/explore-t...ars-apart/
He also has walksheds for Montreal compared with transit stops:
http://www.cat-bus.com/2013/04/walksheds...-stations/
One thing I've noticed is that in Montreal, there are still bus lines running which used to be trolley lines 100 years ago, or buses that are still buses 100 years later (for instance, the 85 near my parents' house).
I'm sure that if we threw a couple thousand dollars and source info at Anton, we could get him to do something like that for GRT (or if we somehow otherwise interested him; but he lives in Montreal, not KW, so it might be less interesting for him).