Grand River Transit

[KevinL]

What route were the large bus shelters that were built on Charles at Water for? It looks like as of 2018 only the 34 comes by there, but the capacity of the shelters seems to be much greater than the current demand of the 34 would warrant.

It's for reworked routes post-Ion launch. Same as the ones near Ion stations that have no routes servicing them yet.

Speaking of stops built for future service, This is in the Ottawa South project in the Planning and Works agenda (2018-19):

Improvements/enhancements to existing Grand River Transit (GRT) bus stops, as well as proposed new stops west of David Bergey Drive for a future iXpress route

The 205 as planned only goes as far as Sunrise; are they pondering an extension to Mannheim?

[yige_t]

Improvements/enhancements to existing Grand River Transit (GRT) bus stops, as well as proposed new stops west of David Bergey Drive for a future iXpress route

The 205 as planned only goes as far as Sunrise; are they pondering an extension to Mannheim?

Yes http://www.grt.ca/en/about-grt/resources...ap-web.pdf

[Viewfromthe42]

In the past couple months, several times now I've had to go speak to people trying to wait for buses at the shelters on Charles at Water. I would have hoped they could have reacted to public perception - that a shiny shelter means buses will come, even without a list of buses - and make it more explicitly clear that the stops are not serviced.

[Pheidippides]

TriTag, and GRT users, should be relieved, "To help encourage ridership in 2018 as GRT services change and ION launches, staff are proposing to keep GRT fares unchanged for 2018."

Also in the budget, GRT proposing to make the route 77 (Wilmot) a permanent route.

"To date, the additional service has shown a positive impact and contributed to an increased ridership of 30% over the same period in 2016."


Month         Boardings        Avg. Daily Boardings
                  2016     2017      2016     2017
June             819    1,196         37        54
July               935    1,032         45        49
August         785    1,154         34        50
September  872    1,302         40        62


Also in the budget, $5.25 million in 2021 and 2022 planned for articulated buses, and another $7.785 million from 2023-2027.

Also in the budget, Charles Street Terminal renewal is shown at about $160,000 per year to 2022.

[tomh009]

Those numbers look like a solid improvement. Hopefully the trend will continue.

[nms]

I guess that leaves Wellesley as the largest village without committed bus service beyond what Kiwanis provides?

Village	Population	Bus (as of 2017)
Ayr	4171	No
Baden	4500	Yes
Bloomingdale	230	No
Breslau	2415	No
Conestogo	1270	No
Doon	(part of Kitchener)	Yes
Elmira	10,161	Yes
Freeport	(part of Kitchener)	Yes
Heidelberg	666	No
Mannheim	"Retired Population Centre" (Statistics Canada)	No
Maryhill	576	No
New Dundee	1119	No
New Hamburg	13,595	Yes
Petersburg	340	No
Roseville	338	No
St Agatha	450	No
St. Clements	"Retired Population Centre" (Statistics Canada)	No
St. Jacobs	1988	Yes
Wellesley	11,260	No
West Montrose	267	No
Winterbourne	313	No

[Coke6pk]

Great use of the new table feature!

Coke

[danbrotherston]

I guess that leaves Wellesley as the largest village without committed bus service beyond what Kiwanis provides?

Village	Population	Bus (as of 2017)
Ayr	4171	No
Baden	4500	Yes
Bloomingdale	230	No
Breslau	2415	No
Conestogo	1270	No
Doon	(part of Kitchener)	Yes
Elmira	10,161	Yes
Freeport	(part of Kitchener)	Yes
Heidelberg	666	No
Mannheim	"Retired Population Centre" (Statistics Canada)	No
Maryhill	576	No
New Dundee	1119	No
New Hamburg	13,595	Yes
Petersburg	340	No
Roseville	338	No
St Agatha	450	No
St. Clements	"Retired Population Centre" (Statistics Canada)	No
St. Jacobs	1988	Yes
Wellesley	11,260	No
West Montrose	267	No
Winterbourne	313	No

Looks like it's actually Wellesley.

[panamaniac]

Are there any plans to add service to Breslau? It seems an easy add.

[KevinL]

It's on the 2022 map, if I recall - a route from about Victoria/Lackner, down along Fountain, then along Fairway to the mall.

[Elmira Guy]

What is the source of that chart? The population for Wellesley is wayyy off, unless that means the whole Township because there is no way that the village of Wellesley has 11,260 people.

I also find the population for New Hamburg to seem awfully high as well given that other settlements in Wilmot are listed separately. According to Statscan, the pop for Wilmot in 2016 was 20,545, yet NH plus Baden is 18,000+ according to that table.

No male appendage measuring intended, but I am surprised that New Hamburg has almost a third more people than does Elmira.

[jamincan]

The New Hamburg and Elmira populations are the population centre figures from Statistics Canada. I'm not sure where the figure for Baden comes from, as New Hamburg actually includes Baden.

[Elmira Guy]

Interesting.

I wonder why the Wellesley number appears so high as there is no way there are that many people in the village/town of Wellesley.

[DHLawrence]

I'm surprised Doon and Freeport still have their own figures; I would have thought they were lumped in with Kitchener.

[KevinL]

Spotted at Charles Terminal: this new service desk near the top of the escalators. Will this be where the new farecard is dispensed?