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RE: Grand River Transit - MidTowner - 05-29-2015 I don't think the 204 can be our Bloor subway, since we're not talking about Bloor and it's not a subway. A subway and bus service do differ in many important ways. The 204 is not a local service. It is being characterised as limited stop/express. Those types of services do not have 450 meter spacing. There are bus stops within two hundred meters of pretty much anywhere downtown, but they'll not all be served by any one route, and certainly not by a route that is intended to be fast. The trade-offs to save some riders a few hundred meters of walking are not worth slowing down a route whose branding is "express." That might be a good reason for a split stop, but they should be more specific. If it's merely inconvenient, that's not a good reason at all. Inconvenient how? That's still insufficient communication on their part about something that's pretty important. RE: Grand River Transit - mpd618 - 05-29-2015 (05-29-2015, 11:17 AM)MidTowner Wrote: The 204 is not a local service. It is being characterised as limited stop/express. Those types of services do not have 450 meter spacing. It is both a limited stop service and a local service, being the only service to travel its corridor. The thing iXpress routes (after the 200) are most similar to is European bus routes that don't follow the North American anti-pattern of stopping every block, but are nevertheless fully intended to serve their entire corridor. RE: Grand River Transit - clasher - 05-29-2015 The 204 on Queen Street isn't going to be "express" speed through that part of town no matter where they put the stops. It's pretty much a crawl during all the rush hour times. RE: Grand River Transit - Pheidippides - 05-29-2015 With the Queen traffic and with the construction on Highland not wrapping up until 30-Nov-2015 and the addition of a signal at Highland and West new users to GRT/iXpress might be in for a bit of a bad first experience! RE: Grand River Transit - Canard - 05-29-2015 Can you make a map that shows the population densities in the area where this stop is? I don't really get the issue here RE: Grand River Transit - Spokes - 05-31-2015 (05-29-2015, 10:25 PM)Canard Wrote: Can you make a map that shows the population densities in the area where this stop is? I don't really get the issue here With regard to the innitial issue of the stop being at Mill vs Courtland, there is a greater population base at Courtland (4 residential buildings). But it's more than just that for me, Courtland is a major artery and a connection to Victoria Park as well. Maybe they wanted the stop to be near the Iron Horse Trail? RE: Grand River Transit - panamaniac - 05-31-2015 (05-31-2015, 10:49 AM)Spokes Wrote:(05-29-2015, 10:25 PM)Canard Wrote: Can you make a map that shows the population densities in the area where this stop is? I don't really get the issue here With the proximity of the trail and the pathway by Joseph Schneider Haus, it's a bit of a wash wrt to pedestrian access to Victoria Park, I would think. I wonder how far west (south?) of Courtland the stop would need to be place to prevent problems wrt the right turn lane from Queen onto Courtland? RE: Grand River Transit - Canard - 05-31-2015 I'm just saying you might get more reaction or understanding if you made a map that showed a gradient from like blue to red, red being the most densely populated area, and a big black dot where the stop is. Picture worth a thousand words kinda thing. I have no idea what any of the issue is here and to me it just sounds like "I want the stop closer to me" (even if that's not the case) - but that's probably why there's zero movement either from the media or GRT or Counsel about it. RE: Grand River Transit - mpd618 - 05-31-2015 (05-31-2015, 12:10 PM)Canard Wrote: I have no idea what any of the issue is here and to me it just sounds like "I want the stop closer to me" (even if that's not the case) - but that's probably why there's zero movement either from the media or GRT or Counsel about it. Fortunately, the only part of this statement that is true is the first one. There has been some coverage in the media, Council actually amended the recommendation to investigate the stop placement in this area, and GRT is looking into the issue. RE: Grand River Transit - Markster - 05-31-2015 So part of the confounding factor was that my initial complaint was based on this: Given that, it just didn't seem to make sense to put a stop at Highland, a stop at Mill, and skip Courtland. A stop at Courtland instead of Mill would be quite reasonable a substitution to spread the stops more evenly. And then we found out about the Highland and Mill stops being split stops. I too, have been curious to map density along the route, so I've gone and done it, and made a rough, hand-done map. Red: areas of high rises (~100 households/ha) Yellow: areas of low rises or townhomes (~35 households/ha) Green: areas of single family homes (~15 households/ha) Blue: Commercial districts Red Pins for the 204 stops GRT's Proposal Eastbound: Westbound: And for comparison My Proposal RE: Grand River Transit - Spokes - 06-01-2015 The stops at Lawrence and Belmont are pretty tight together, no? RE: Grand River Transit - Waterlooer - 06-01-2015 (06-01-2015, 07:00 AM)Spokes Wrote: The stops at Lawrence and Belmont are pretty tight together, no? Agreed, and it services the same mall as well. I feel like the past few iXpress's (203 especially) aren't that "Xpress"... they feel like normal bus routes but with fancy stops. RE: Grand River Transit - Spokes - 06-01-2015 They had the right idea with the original one, and then it's gotten worse and worse. People here don't like having to walk to bus stops RE: Grand River Transit - zanate - 06-01-2015 (06-01-2015, 09:10 AM)Spokes Wrote: They had the right idea with the original one, and then it's gotten worse and worse. People here don't like having to walk to bus stops Apples to oranges, though. The 200 was overlaid on the 7's route, and for most of the route they overlap. Riders have the choice between a high frequency local and a high frequency limited-stop express. As soon as the 201 came in, GRT made it clear that stop spacing would be a compromise between travel speed and the lack of overlapping local service along the same corridor. The problem isn't so much that the spacing should be wider, the problem is branding. "iXpress" all but spells out "express", and it's causing these routes to have an identity crisis. Express is not the need, though. The need is for reasonably quick buses that don't stop at every single cross street, but will serve the major intersections and nodes, with direct routing and with good frequency. That's not express. That's just good service, and it's what you need to make the grid work. RE: Grand River Transit - clasher - 06-01-2015 Maybe it's time to get rid of the silly iXpress branding? |