Grand River Transit

[jwilliamson]

Summary:  GRT is going to relax it's procedures for crossing ION tracks.

Their statistics are fascinating regarding collisions - I had no idea that so many accidents were caused by GRT busses stopping at tracks!

Very good news! Now if we can just get the school bus operators to do the same … unfortunately I have an idea they might be subject to different HTA rules, which are harder to change. Does anybody know if this is in fact the case?

They should have done this decades ago, though — imagine how many times buses have stopped at the Waterloo Spur, which hasn’t typically had more than 2 trains a day since I can remember (except for when the tourist train was running).

In the document, it says that "Two operators in Ontario (MiWay and YRT) [...] follow the more restrictive school bus policies [...]"