The extra rush hour buses for Cambridge are good news. What was really interesting to me this week was that, with the new Go service in Brantford, it will have better transit access to Toronto than Waterloo Region does.
After all, the Brantford service is all-day and weekend to Aldershot, where trains go to Union in an hour (the express trains are less) with pretty good frequency throughout the day. We don’t know the running time of the Brantford service yet, but if we guess forty-five minutes to Aldershot it will mean two hours or so from Brantford to Toronto. This is about the same as from Cambridge to Toronto or Kitchener to Toronto, but with much more frequent service.
I’m surprised by the sheer number of buses. I hope it’s a success and they continue to receive that much or even more frequency. For them to have access to both McMaster and the Lakeshore line is great. But it seems odd for a city of 100,000 to have arguably better service to Toronto than a metro region of 500,000 when they are about the same distance away.
After all, the Brantford service is all-day and weekend to Aldershot, where trains go to Union in an hour (the express trains are less) with pretty good frequency throughout the day. We don’t know the running time of the Brantford service yet, but if we guess forty-five minutes to Aldershot it will mean two hours or so from Brantford to Toronto. This is about the same as from Cambridge to Toronto or Kitchener to Toronto, but with much more frequent service.
I’m surprised by the sheer number of buses. I hope it’s a success and they continue to receive that much or even more frequency. For them to have access to both McMaster and the Lakeshore line is great. But it seems odd for a city of 100,000 to have arguably better service to Toronto than a metro region of 500,000 when they are about the same distance away.