Grand River Transit

[Pheidippides]

University/Westmount is in the laurel creek watershed and nothing of significance can/will exist at this intersection

I guess I don't understand the limitation. They won't build bus shelters or run wires for real-time displays because of the watershed? There are already two stops right at the corner of University and Westmount (#29 EB and WB) and a #8 stop 60m from the corner. The WB #29 stop is literally on the culvert that passes under University.


I am beginning to question if the UW transit terminal is still worth it or would it be better to have GRT stops near the Laurel Trail on Columbia and University and the out-of-town buses on ring road near DC?

It is about 350m from Columbia or University to the UW Ion station and it would be about 250m from the farthest GRT platform at the UW bus terminal to the UW Ion station. It will be quite the time penalty for buses to get off of Columbia/University, around ring road, across two sets of Ion tracks, and park in a bus bay. In many cases, although inconvenient and uncomfortable (wind, rain, snow) walking the extra 100m will be faster and your crosstown trip times on the bus are shorter too.

It is unfortunate that is the kind of choice users are faced with.