Grand River Transit - Printable Version +- Waterloo Region Connected (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com) +-- Forum: Waterloo Region Works (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=14) +--- Forum: Transportation and Infrastructure (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=25) +--- Thread: Grand River Transit (/showthread.php?tid=13) Pages:
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RE: Grand River Transit - timc - 01-19-2016 (01-19-2016, 05:21 PM)chutten Wrote: Do they not? Will they not be No. As far as I know, the LRT is not a railway in that sense. Crossing the spur line is a different story. RE: Grand River Transit - KevinL - 01-20-2016 I hear that the Hayward/Family Centre BusPLUS service is approved, but I've yet to see a route. It's supposed to operate out of Forest Glen, but there doesn't seem to be anything more available. :/ RE: Grand River Transit - isUsername - 01-20-2016 (01-20-2016, 01:28 AM)KevinL Wrote: I hear that the Hayward/Family Centre BusPLUS service is approved, but I've yet to see a route. It's supposed to operate out of Forest Glen, but there doesn't seem to be anything more available. :/ Transit improvements typically don't take effect until the fall of the budget year that they are approved. RE: Grand River Transit - Pheidippides - 01-20-2016 (01-18-2016, 12:13 PM)Markster Wrote: I noticed that the Waterloo Spur at Weber has crossing arms now! Maybe they've been there for weeks/months, but I only just noticed them today. Are they active? Has anyone seen them in action yet? It does seem overly risk adverse given that: 1) the small amount of rail traffic at that crossing 2) the known schedule of rail traffic (12am to 5am) that does not coincide with GRT service hours along that corridor (6am to 12am) 3) the slow speed of the rail traffic at that crossing 4) the improved barriers at the crossing RE: Grand River Transit - jwilliamson - 01-21-2016 Maybe it will change once ION is running, but there is a freight train that went through the Waterloo Spur tonight at 11. RE: Grand River Transit - KevinL - 01-22-2016 There's been a few mentions of the U-Pass for Conestoga recently, but one aspect has not been brought up yet: the students still have to approve it. That's being run by the student association; there will be a referendum held Feb 1-3. I'm not sure how strong student sentiment is on this one way or the other, but given how little mention there has been, I suppose we can conclude it is likely to pass. RE: Grand River Transit - nms - 01-22-2016 I find it a little unfortunate that the Conestoga students will be paying more for their proposed pass than WLU and UW students currently do. Arguments about a smaller student body size or more expensive service improvements don't hold water for me. RE: Grand River Transit - timc - 01-22-2016 (01-22-2016, 02:11 PM)nms Wrote: I find it a little unfortunate that the Conestoga students will be paying more for their proposed pass than WLU and UW students currently do. Arguments about a smaller student body size or more expensive service improvements don't hold water for me. Unless I'm mistaken, it isn't costing more. The UW U-pass is $81.15 per term. That is $20.29/month. WLU is paying $81.65 per term, $20.41/month. The Conestoga College proposal is for $245/year, or $20.42/month. RE: Grand River Transit - Andy - 01-22-2016 Why don't they hold water? You are looking at the undergrad population of both WLU (16,000 undergrad) + UW (30,000 undergrad) compared to Conestoga (12,000 fulltime). So there's 3 times the buying power right there. Conestoga is in the middle of nowhere. The only transit in the area is used by students going to/from the college. The majority of the service updates will only serve the student population. Where the routes servicing the universities (especially WLU) would be there regardless, albeit not as heavily used. What ulterior reasoning would GRT have for attempting to charge more for the passes? They could be trying to get as much money as possible out of the College students before it won't pass, but that's just how these things work. RE: Grand River Transit - chutten - 01-22-2016 (01-22-2016, 02:35 PM)timc Wrote:(01-22-2016, 02:11 PM)nms Wrote: I find it a little unfortunate that the Conestoga students will be paying more for their proposed pass than WLU and UW students currently do. Arguments about a smaller student body size or more expensive service improvements don't hold water for me. Multiplied by the size of the student bodies... 35.9k UW (2014), 17.16k WLU (2010), 44k CC (2014) we get... $728.411k/month UW $350.2356k/month WLU $898.48k/month CC ------ $1977.1266k/month from U-passes across all three campuses. Or, just under $2M per month income, guaranteed, month-over-month, time without end. Wow, that's pretty awesome. I could go for $23M per annum, recurring, right about now. RE: Grand River Transit - DKsan - 01-22-2016 Is that 44k for Conestoga full time and part-time? Because the UPASSes at UW and WLU are only for full time undergrads and grad students. Not part-time. RE: Grand River Transit - chutten - 01-22-2016 (01-22-2016, 03:42 PM)DKsan Wrote: Is that 44k for Conestoga full time and part-time? No idea. It's just what comes up when you google "student population conestoga college" RE: Grand River Transit - tomh009 - 01-22-2016 (01-22-2016, 04:17 PM)chutten Wrote:(01-22-2016, 03:42 PM)DKsan Wrote: Is that 44k for Conestoga full time and part-time? 12K full-time and 30K continuing education. https://www.conestogac.on.ca/about/profilestats.jsp RE: Grand River Transit - jwilliamson - 01-23-2016 http://www.grt.ca/en/aboutus/Contests.asp From January until September, if you identify the building on the GRT Monthly Pass you can enter a prize draw. Each month someone will be drawn to win a GRT mug. Additionally, all correct answers from the entire year will be drawn from in October for 10 $100 EasyGo fare cards. Hopefully this means the electronic fare cards will be ready for the beginning of October. RE: Grand River Transit - KevinL - 01-23-2016 (01-23-2016, 05:36 PM)jwilliamson Wrote: Hopefully this means the electronic fare cards will be ready for the beginning of October. That's definitely the plan, they are not planning to print October pass cards. |