04-10-2023, 03:56 PM
(04-09-2023, 03:32 PM)KevinL Wrote: The possible loss of Route 2 has reached some community transit advocates, who have put a petition up.
I signed and donated to this petition. This is a boneheaded move - and being seconded by folks that have zero interest in Kitchener is beyond weird. Shit like that makes me feel we're better off as a single city. Back in the day, when Kitchener Transit was run in K-W only, it was a better service. GRT is junk. But cancelling a route like #2 makes me feel we should cancel other less used route. Like skip the routes to the townships.
Anyway, that's the end of my rant.
I should add, #2 was affected for years by construction on Stirling, as well as it was reduced when the Ion was approved in as a cost saving. At the very end of Stirling is a smaller apartment building, I want to say maybe 30 units. However, many of those folks were using the transit, and many were disabled. About 2/3rd's the residents moved out after the transit was taken away, and in the end, the owner never bothered to re-rent those united out, and renovated the entire apartment to something much more expensive.
Really great planning by the region in this regard. Sadly we have a bonehead at our regional chair now, a mayor that doesn't care (except for food, he cares about food), so things will only get worse.