05-25-2016, 08:14 AM
Very well-put. The coverage target in Mount Hope and Breithaupt and Mary Allen is being met since the 4 stops along Weber and Union, but there’s no consideration of the fact that the 4 serves entirely different destinations than the 7 and 200.
I’m in the same situation as googolor (we’re probably neighbours), where I used the 200 and 7 pre-construction, and the Weber/Guelph stop when it was in use, but now bike. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that there are some people who, instead of biking, will drive a car. If they’re needing to get to one of the universities, they need to get there somehow.
When I spoke with GRT about this, their thinking was along the lines of the 200 stops on Weber being a necessary evil while the 4 was detoured off of Weber. The fact that the 7 was moved a few hundred meters to the west, making it impractical for riders needing to get into Waterloo, seemed not to have occurred to them in their planning.
I’m in the same situation as googolor (we’re probably neighbours), where I used the 200 and 7 pre-construction, and the Weber/Guelph stop when it was in use, but now bike. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that there are some people who, instead of biking, will drive a car. If they’re needing to get to one of the universities, they need to get there somehow.
When I spoke with GRT about this, their thinking was along the lines of the 200 stops on Weber being a necessary evil while the 4 was detoured off of Weber. The fact that the 7 was moved a few hundred meters to the west, making it impractical for riders needing to get into Waterloo, seemed not to have occurred to them in their planning.