(03-03-2023, 07:34 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Lol, on the scanner just now:
"We should start a pool to see how long the ION lasts tonight."
Looks like the first cancellation was at 18:00 between Conestoga and R&T: https://twitter.com/AlertsGRT/status/163...5418840065
At 18:25 the first Conestoga to Fairway train was cancelled: https://twitter.com/AlertsGRT/status/163...5988955141
19:15 sees the first Fairway to Conestoga cancelled: https://twitter.com/AlertsGRT/status/163...6920094721
There isn't even freezing rain...looking out my window there is maybe 3 centimeters of snow? What is the justification this time?
I hope this shit show of a PPP is held accountable if this is going to continue. 1 billion dollars (give or take) on a "rapid transit" system that falls apart in the slightest bit of winter precipitation, crawls along like a turtle for most of the route, has doors that seem to be breaking more frequently, constantly gets into accidents due to an absolute moronic track route and so on.
Grand River Transit, Keolis and GrandLinq suck. People hate our transit, rightfully so. This recent Reddit thread which questions "what would it take to get you to start using transit/biking" etc and most replies point to the obvious: the LRT is slow as shit - you can walk faster than it moves in many places - and busing anywhere takes way more time than it should. A 15 minute drive by car can be an hour long, multi-bus and/or LRT journey. They can't manage the bare minimum and make transit for a region with a population so large an embarrassing situation. And now it seems like when it comes to winter time, everything falls apart. And the price to use it just keeps going up and up and up.