Grand River Transit

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Too bad we wasted all that money on an LRT. Buses are cheap to own, operate, and maintain!

Note: I am actually in favour of more buses and bus maintenance facilities. But it’s interesting that the amount for a single new bus facility is a significant fraction of the cost of the supposedly ruinously expensive LRT system.

I am still amazed that this project is being built at the North end of Waterloo.  You would think the facility would be more centralized like around Maplegrove Road as an example.  I would love to see what a cost study would say about the extra labour and fuel lost on a bus serving Kitchener or Cambridge having to leave from North Waterloo.  Not to mention the extra distance employees have to drive to get to work there...

There's already two GRT garages. One in Cambridge near Cambridge Centre mall, and one in Kitchener near the Laurentian power centre. They're not being replaced by this project, this is a 3rd bus garage to supplement them. Given the current areas north Waterloo is the logical spot to spread them out over the region, for exactly the reasons you mention.