(10-16-2022, 03:26 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-16-2022, 02:58 PM)ac3r Wrote: That's a shame. I never regularly took a bus that stopped in Guelph but I'm curious, are the buses full enough to warrant GRT and/or Guelph Transit just adding a route a few times a day? It would be very handy and although Guelph isn't part of Waterloo Region they're so close they might as well be part of us so a connection would be nice. It's no further away than the distance between Waterloo and Cambridge.
"A few times a day"...
They'd do much better to run regular bus service.
There's huge travel between KW and Guelph...it's why people believe they should expand the highway.
But we refuse to invest in high quality frequent transit service.
If the ridership is there then I'd love to see local transit agencies run buses then. Even if at the start it was just a single bus in each direction (so 2x) departing every hour it would be so useful. But better yet, a more frequent schedule would be amazing...say every 15, 25 or 30 minutes. A route with that frequency would be so helpful for people opening up opportunities for employment, education, socialization, recreation etc. When the population of Waterloo Region and Guelph is combined, we've got about 800'000 people between us which is even larger than Mississauga.
The lack of transit in this country is truly abysmal. It's especially pathetic in Southern Ontario where we've got about 13.5 million people - 35% of the Canadian population - living within less than an 800 kilometer wide area yet you're basically forced to drive everywhere and not even because we lack good trains (we definitely do) but because we don't even have intercity buses in the most important and populace area of one of the main G7 nations.