07-02-2021, 06:13 PM
(07-01-2021, 10:15 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Someone just posted this plan:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/towards-grea...sion-paper
As the first public step in releasing a transportation plan.
So far, not too many details, certainly more than a little transit proposed.
On the flip side, they're also proposing expanding virtually every highway in the region.
In 2021...
*sigh*.
Well, at least we can provide feedback begging them to stop building roads, then they can ignore it.
This is what I noticed:
* Increasing the frequency of local transit service to every 10 minutes, across all urban areas.
* Fully integrating transit fares and services to provide seamless connections across the region.
* Ensuring 24-hour public transportation access to better serve employees of the region’s largest employment nodes.
I mean, this is what you want if you want more people out of cars. Better visions for PT than I have seen in a long time.
24 hour transit and 10 minute lead time, you will have people willing to abandon their cars. As it stands, and as I mentioned before, we lost part of our route, but what is left, reduced Saturday service, no Sunday/holiday service, and slightly reduced weekday service. Even if I wanted to use transit, I couldn’t because the service doesn’t exist for my work hours.