(12-09-2019, 05:45 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:

(12-09-2019, 12:35 PM)urbd Wrote: Random question on a route name: the 7 Conestoga to Uptown. Runs only at peak times, loops around through Caroline Street, stops at Willis Way ION Station and goes to Waterloo Town Square and back north on King to Conestoga. Do you think this route should still be #7 even though it is quite different than the actual 7? I asked a bus driver and he told me that around 30% of the people that take it get super confused as to why it goes on Caroline and then loops back to Conestoga. I think this would be easily fixed by simply calling it a different number so people understand it is not the full 7. Thoughts?

I could go either way on this. It’s not really a different route, just a scheduled short turn of the main route. So the different destination captures what is going on. On the other hand, we have a small system with not that many route numbers and to my knowledge few if any other examples of different destinations for the same route, so putting it right in the route number might be helpful. I would say that it should definitely just be a letter — giving it a completely different number would not help with clarity.

(12-10-2019, 04:07 PM)KevinL Wrote: If you take the 7 a little further, it's a short hop to the Allen platform.

(12-13-2019, 10:26 PM)ac3r Wrote: Yes, the 7 used to have the letter differentiation. The routes did follow more or less the same route, with some slight differences. When they got to where the Highway 7/8 interchange is, they split up due to Highway 8 dividing the two southwest part of the city for the most part. The B would go left, going down Weber Street. The A went right, going down Kingsway, one of the numbered streets, then I think down Connaught to Wilson. Both then arrived at the mall. It's not too different from the current 7, so I think it makes sense to have the current two different 7 routes easier be more distinct. The sign says it already, but it's a lot quicker to just look at a number and letter and know which bus it is rather than read an entire sign or listen to audio cues, which require the bus to come to a complete stop and open its doors before you realize you wanted the other 7.

(12-14-2019, 03:05 PM)D40LF Wrote:

(12-14-2019, 10:31 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: I believe that is the old route designation. If I recall correctly, the A actually took one of two streets, either Connaught or Wilson, identified only by “via” on the sign. Later one of them was changed to F.

Actually, this was true for the University and Columbia branches, which were both designated as “7D”. Wilson was the oddball designated as just “7”.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010605071811/http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/grtransit/docs/pdf/RT07regSep00.pdf

IIRC, the schedule was reworked in 2001 at which point 7E and 7F were added as well.

(01-07-2020, 10:18 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: potential GRT strike

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/talks-continue-to-try-an-avert-strike-at-grt-2005228

this isn't going to be good for transit users!!!!

(01-08-2020, 02:42 PM)KevinL Wrote: Notably, in the unlikely outcome of a strike it would not affect LRT service as the Keolis operators are not (yet) unionized.

(01-08-2020, 12:47 PM)Acitta Wrote:

(01-07-2020, 10:18 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: potential GRT strike

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/talks-continue-to-try-an-avert-strike-at-grt-2005228

this isn't going to be good for transit users!!!!

The press always talks about a strike when there are negotiations going on. It rarely comes to that. There are proposals and counter-proposals till they finally come to a reasonably acceptable agreement and life goes on. The press likes to turn everything into a crisis.