11-25-2023, 06:56 AM
(11-24-2023, 04:46 PM)ac3r Wrote: Wow. It's like they're trying their hardest to make transit unpalatable to people. People are going to choose driving over walking to an even further bus stop in the dead of winter - myself included. Can't rely on this joke of a transit agency anymore.
Even major systems like the TTC close stops in severe weather. It's not policy, it's physics. When everything is covered in ice, it's just not possible to serve certain stops, and attempting to do so just gets the bus stuck making service worse for everyone else.
The whole point of this plan is to minimize the number of passengers inconvenienced by severe weather. Right now the bus gets stuck, and the run gets cancelled, and everyone misses their bus. With the new plan certain stops get skipped, but the bus doesn't get stuck, and everyone else on the route still has a bus show up and still gets to work. I'd think this would improve ridership, given that for most customers it's a significant improvement in service reliability during severe weather. And for those whose bus stops are closed, at least they know, rather than standing there waiting forever for a bus that's gotten stuck.