05-29-2015, 11:17 AM
I don't think the 204 can be our Bloor subway, since we're not talking about Bloor and it's not a subway. A subway and bus service do differ in many important ways.
The 204 is not a local service. It is being characterised as limited stop/express. Those types of services do not have 450 meter spacing. There are bus stops within two hundred meters of pretty much anywhere downtown, but they'll not all be served by any one route, and certainly not by a route that is intended to be fast. The trade-offs to save some riders a few hundred meters of walking are not worth slowing down a route whose branding is "express."
That might be a good reason for a split stop, but they should be more specific. If it's merely inconvenient, that's not a good reason at all. Inconvenient how? That's still insufficient communication on their part about something that's pretty important.
The 204 is not a local service. It is being characterised as limited stop/express. Those types of services do not have 450 meter spacing. There are bus stops within two hundred meters of pretty much anywhere downtown, but they'll not all be served by any one route, and certainly not by a route that is intended to be fast. The trade-offs to save some riders a few hundred meters of walking are not worth slowing down a route whose branding is "express."
That might be a good reason for a split stop, but they should be more specific. If it's merely inconvenient, that's not a good reason at all. Inconvenient how? That's still insufficient communication on their part about something that's pretty important.