12-17-2024, 03:57 PM
(12-17-2024, 02:03 PM)Acitta Wrote:(12-15-2024, 07:30 PM)jeffster Wrote: I suppose you can argue that, but you still need the roads BEFORE you build the transit.
That said, people running transit companies like GRT, for example, cancel routes all the time if they are not utilized enough. In our area (Forest Hill) we lost transit due to low usage - though initially cut back to fund the Ion, between those cut back, cutting down on head time, hours, days, and then years of construction, absolutely no one uses that bus anymore, so it's going to be gone for good. (not sure of route number, now, but it was Route 2 at one point).
Well, there is the #12 along Westmount and the #1 along Queen St./Blvd. There is the #35 along Greenbrook which is planned to be discontinued, which is unfortunate because it is the only way to get to the medical offices and other businesses at the Forest Hill Centre.
At the council meeting about a week ago all of the service cuts were rejected by council, I don't know if its set in stone yet because I didn't watch the entire meeting but council rejected them all with a decent margin.
Route 9 Lakeshore, Route 30 Ring Road, Route 55 Grand Bridge frequency cuts were removed.
Route 26 massive service cuts (50% of trips) was removed.
Route 35 cancelation was reversed (GRT hates the Greenbrook neighbourhood because this is the second time they've tried this).
Garbage can removals at bus stops, also reversed.
TRITAG was very influential on that decision, same thing with a the UW NDP club.

