02-01-2016, 09:35 AM
One of the motivating factors for choosing our airport is the quickness of it. I've left work near Conestoga mall, and by the time turned into the airport property, it was less than 10 minutes to park, pay for parking, return slip to car, get ticket from (sadly departed) Bearskin, get through security. So I could realistically plan to be at the airport for 20 minutes before my flight with more buffer and still have no issue. Suddenly, though, you need to be at a particular bus station 1.5h before your flight, plus travel time to that station, and it's not a compelling situation. It's probably not *just* cost that sees the dedicated transit service to our busiest airport (Pearson) from our most highly populated core (downtown Toronto) get barely used. Ottawa has an easy extension of the 97 route (kind of like our iXpress) that goes to the airport, and even at busy times, it's hardly used. It's just not all that successful a service in all but the busiest and most professionally integrated cities and transit systems.