11-29-2017, 10:40 AM
Transit connections in Galt make sense if Galt wants to grow up, but the southworks and Cambridge Mill-area developments haven't been well-received, let alone anything within spitting distance of Ainslie. If we ignore all that and assume that Galt wants to have 6 or even (gasp) 10+ storey buildings at their main Galt intersections, that only means that it makes sense to have grid intersections with transit lines there, as we are moving away from inefficient hub-and-spoke transit networks.
That said, a Greyhound hub does not make sense in Galt for Toronto-bound trips, as it puts the terminal as far south in Cambridge as possible, meaning that the bus itself has the longest path back to the 401, and everyone who needs to get to the hub has some degree of travel southwards in the wrong direction. The disconnected hubs of Cambridge (Galt, Preston, and both Hespeler and Hespeler Road) make the density required to make this function far less plausible than the continually-full buses of Greyhound up at UW/WLU. Greyhound terminals for disconnected passenger sources like Cambridge make the most sense as close as possible to the direct bus route, so for Toronto, a bus jaunting off the 401 and immediately back on, far closer than the current north-Cambridge area, makes the most sense, as while few live near any of these potential locations, the overall Greyhound trip is reduced, while the to-Greyhound trips aren't in the wrong direction for any users, either.
That said, a Greyhound hub does not make sense in Galt for Toronto-bound trips, as it puts the terminal as far south in Cambridge as possible, meaning that the bus itself has the longest path back to the 401, and everyone who needs to get to the hub has some degree of travel southwards in the wrong direction. The disconnected hubs of Cambridge (Galt, Preston, and both Hespeler and Hespeler Road) make the density required to make this function far less plausible than the continually-full buses of Greyhound up at UW/WLU. Greyhound terminals for disconnected passenger sources like Cambridge make the most sense as close as possible to the direct bus route, so for Toronto, a bus jaunting off the 401 and immediately back on, far closer than the current north-Cambridge area, makes the most sense, as while few live near any of these potential locations, the overall Greyhound trip is reduced, while the to-Greyhound trips aren't in the wrong direction for any users, either.