Grand River Transit

[Drake]

I admit, I don't understand this fixation on expresses for travel within the city. Not only does the express have to be *fast* to be worth it, it also has to leave when you want it to. Which means it also needs to be frequent, which means you'll need a high ridership. So the demand has to be pretty strong.

So where does the ridership come from? If you take a route like 200, and cut out all the non-major destination stops, what does that do to the ridership? You not only lose all the riders who would board at those stops, but also all the riders who would disembark there. I'm not convinced that we have much ridership driven only by trip origin/destination pairs that are both express-worthy stops.

Again, admittedly I am a non GRT regular. I had not considered this in my original question, but it inspires me to ask another. Could GRT not evaluate peak times EG 7AM-9:30AM and 4-6PM and run limited true express buses along designated or identified major route(s)to move people from hub to hub? Would that be something that people would be interested in?
Right now, some don't take the bus due to convenience... if you paid your $3 and rocket past all these little stops when you were really only interested in a local route at the beginning or end of journey would it increase global ridership?