Grand River Transit

[jeffster]

And in this situation, I meant it as what Tom though: higher likelihood of cobvid-19 transmission than a single-person (or family) private car. I in NY City they believe the high rate of covid-19 and the high death toll may be partially blamed on the high demand on public transit.

Who believes? I recall there was some article that claimed the subway was a significant factor in NY’s high Covid rate, but another pointed out that looking at the details of which areas suffered the most showed that it was actually suburban areas with no subway service that specifically had the highest rates of transmission.

I believe I heard it on CNN.

[jeffster]

I have no idea why you're brining your kids into this, and suggesting that one would be to blame for COVID...the spreading is largely through person to person contact.  If your one child obsessively santized their room 5x per day, but still hung out in close proximity with other people, and the other never cleaned anything, but never went within 50 feet of another person, you'd be blaming the wrong one.

I don't think you understand what I am trying to say.

[KevinL]

Front-door boarding will resume with fare collection on June 1. Temporary plastic barriers will go up for drivers; permanent ones will be installed over the course of the month. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener...95?cmp=rss

[tomh009]

Front-door boarding will resume with fare collection on June 1. Temporary plastic barriers will go up for drivers; permanent ones will be installed over the course of the month. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener...95?cmp=rss

It says that the contract for the permanent barriers will be awarded in June, so I expect it'll be July or (more likely) August before they are all delivered and installed.

[KevinL]

Yeah, I think I skimmed that bit of the article too quickly.

[KevinT]

They were paving at the new UW terminal yesterday. Good to see progress on this again after it was stalled for so long.

[KevinL]

Sunrise Centre terminal is coming on well - just needs shelters and signs, by the looks of it.

   

[bgb_ca]

CTV is reporting an accident between a bus and a car at Block Line and Stratsburg.

Looking at the picture, it appears to be one of the newer 2019 busses. (Looks like it has a white LED in the back)

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/crash-betwe...-1.4963804

Edit: It was 21904. Looks like a light pole was taken out as well. Better picture at https://www.kitchenertoday.com/police-be...us-2400733

[ac3r]

Things at GRT must be picking up again or they are at least anticipating it. A lot of GRT staff (as well as other regional employees) who had their work duties cut in regards to the pandemic were offered to be "redeployed" to other regional facilities, namely Sunnyside Long Term Care and a few other things. A number of bus drivers and others went over there to temporarily work, but some have been requested to return back to their regular work over the next couple weeks.

[KevinL]

The big infrastructure funding has a lot of transit stuff:

-Full kit-out of the UW terminal with canopy and heated shelters

-Full funding of the Conestoga College terminal, including 6 whole buses

-Various stop improvements around the system, including waiting pads and shelters

-I'll quote this one directly as I don't quite get the meaning: "30 new digital information displays at LRT platforms and nine new on-board information displays will make it easier for transit riders to reach their destinations. Upgrades will be made to the mobile payment application, as well as 36 mobile payment validation machines and 25 point-of-sale units."

[tomh009]

Market Trail -- I assume this is from the St Jacobs Market to Northfield?

[jamincan]

This PIC from 2017 suggests it will follow the rail ROW and that there is a stage 2 that will continue to the Research and Technology Park.

https://www.waterloo.ca/en/living/resour...boards.pdf

[trainspotter139]

-I'll quote this one directly as I don't quite get the meaning: "30 new digital information displays at LRT platforms and nine new on-board information displays will make it easier for transit riders to reach their destinations. 

15 LRT stations will be getting 2 displays each for bus connection information at the connecting bus stops. 4 stations will not be getting those displays (Conestoga Mall Station bus terminal already has a display, LWP has no bus connections, UW station will have displays once kitted out, and Fairway Station has real time displays). 

The 9 ION-branded buses will be getting on-board displays, likely similar to those on GO Buses, but could be used to display the next bus information for the next stop. Don't quite know the full details about this one.

Upgrades will be made to the mobile payment application, as well as 36 mobile payment validation machines and 25 point-of-sale units."

iirc, Bus Plus and Mobility Plus still don't have the readers for the EasyGo card installed in them yet. they also want to install more TVMs in strategic places too.

[KevinL]

Thanks! Makes sense now.

[danbrotherston]

   

Well now, all those folks who argue that bus ads are no big deal and don't affect one's transport can now put their income where their mouth is.

Also, I'm kind of surprised this didn't exist before...advertising has pretty much taken over our whole society... yech.