Intercity bus transportation

[ijmorlan]

If I recall correctly, is there some barrier about provincial funding for transit that prevents transit services from crossing municipal boundaries? While Waterloo paid Kitchener for the Kitchener Transit service (and that may have pre-dated whatever provincial rules now exist), I understood that transit service between Kitchener and Cambridge didn't really happen until Waterloo Region took over transit.

I don’t know the actual rules, but that sounds like an excuse. If two adjacent municipalities want a joint service, then even if there is a hard rule about crossing the boundary, they could each run service to an island platform with one curb in each jurisdiction, and schedule the buses to arrive and depart simultaneously in both directions.

In the old days this sort of situation would probably evolve into a new town developing at the transfer point, but I’m sure zoning and planning have that sufficiently locked down that no organic growth would ever occur now.