Grand River Transit

[Rick O'Shay]

I noticed a route 101 going up FH beside the 201 I wonder if the 101 will be off peak hours and not going to the college, but instead going down into Huron Village area.

[KevinL]

I noticed a route 101 going up FH beside the 201 I wonder if the 101 will be off peak hours and not going to the college, but instead going down into Huron Village area.

Interesting - it's like an alternate 201 that goes from UW station down F-H and past Westmount into Huron Village. I wonder what they intend for its frequency and time of service.

[dunkalunk]

I noticed a route 101 going up FH beside the 201 I wonder if the 101 will be off peak hours and not going to the college, but instead going down into Huron Village area.

Interesting - it's like an alternate 201 that goes from UW station down F-H and past Westmount into Huron Village. I wonder what they intend for its frequency and time of service.

I actually wonder that about the entire map. Is there any info out there regarding route frequencies and service hours for the proposed network? I didn't see anything at tehe consultation centre or online.

[Pheidippides]

New GRT bus stops showing up along King and Charles:
   

[D40LF]

It's happening?

[Canard]

What's happening?

[KevinL]

Curious that the signs are up before route numbers are applied. I guess they will do that in-place once service resumes?

[Pheidippides]

My comments:

• 9 should stay on Hazel, as that is where the ridership is, now that the top end of the route has been split into the 19
  

It is interesting that on the 2017 map #9 is on Hazel, the 2018 map it is on Albert, and by 2021 it is back on Hazel.

[D40LF]

What's happening?

GRT routes resuming regular routing, or another pointless move by the geniuses at Grandlinq?

Given the current state of the road and the fast as well as the fact that they didn't even bother to "print" the new stop flags with route numbers, I'll assume the latter.

[Canard]

or another pointless move by the geniuses at Grandlinq?

Well, that's a bit snippy.

[Markster]

Curious that the signs are up before route numbers are applied. I guess they will do that in-place once service resumes?

Yeah, the numbers are just stickers applied after the fact.  You can see it on other bus stops around town.
I guess that it is GrandLinq's job to replace the signs, but GRT is the one making the decisions about routes, so it's much easier to just have GRT come by and apply the stickers after the fact on their own schedule.

My comments:

• 9 should stay on Hazel, as that is where the ridership is, now that the top end of the route has been split into the 19
  

It is interesting that on the 2017 map #9 is on Hazel, the 2018 map it is on Albert, and by 2021 it is back on Hazel.

I talked to them at the Waterloo consultation, and they said that the Albert routing was indeed an error.  It was corrected to Hazel on the display board they had present.

[KevinL]

This just popped up on Twitter - not sure how the user got it, as I can't find an official source.

[Pheidippides]

204 bus shelter spotted in progress at Queen and Homewood:
   

[Coke6pk]

It's on the books as a long-term project, but I don't think we'll see it within 5 years. I think they just pulled out a base map with 'all planned roads' to put this one onto.

I think about three years ago it looked like a definite short-to-medium-term go, and that last year council went back and moved it to the "maybe, sometime in the future" category due to NIMBY concerns.

A good example of this might be the Westmount extension, which first entered the books sometime in the 70s and was finally built in the mid 2000s, also against much local opposition.

As a local resident there, I've heard nothing of the extension (nor any NIBMY from my neighbours).  Personally, I'd love the bridge to come sooner rather than later...

Coke

[Elmira Guy]

Yikes! That is not acceptable.

GRT investigating after bus spotted passing stopped school bus

http://www.570news.com/2016/10/05/grt-in...cambridge/