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RE: Grand River Transit - Markster - 02-10-2017 (02-10-2017, 12:15 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I feel like there were reasons they preferred not to use articulated buses? Was it ONLY inability to fit in terminal space? I would think that would still be an issue, Charles St. is not the only terminal. Strasburg garage wasn't designed to handle them, which was the main reason they don't have them yet. Bus terminals are now being built to handle artics, for instance, The Boardwalk doesn't use Zipper platforms, opting for straight curbs. The rebuild of the Fairway terminal will be the same. It is preferable to have frequency! However by 2020, the 201 and 202 will both be running on 10 minute frequencies, hopefully at more than just rush hour. And that's starting to get to the point where larger buses are an option. Artics will also better handle the "class gets out" traffic at 9:30pm. RE: Grand River Transit - goggolor - 02-17-2017 I noticed a couple of tweets from GRT relating to when 200 iXpress service would be returning to Uptown/Grand River Hospital. Sounds like even if the underpass is completed by Spring 2017, GRT isn't in a hurry to return to King Street. Anyone know what these "integrated stops" are?
RE: Grand River Transit - Canard - 02-17-2017 Wasn't the idea at one point that busses would pull up onto the tracks and sit flush with the platform, as if they were an LRV? RE: Grand River Transit - Markster - 02-17-2017 It's very disappointing that GRT is going to be avoiding King until September. (02-17-2017, 11:42 AM)Canard Wrote: Wasn't the idea at one point that busses would pull up onto the tracks and sit flush with the platform, as if they were an LRV? I thought I had heard they were explicitly trying to avoid that. As much as I think it could work fine, Seattle's transit tunnel seems to manage quite well. I'm also wondering what's going to happen for route 7's William St stop. Are they still going to have a northbound stop? Is it going to pull onto the LRT corridor? RE: Grand River Transit - timc - 02-17-2017 I think that articulated buses would be even more awkward getting out of the UW transit plaza than the current situation. RE: Grand River Transit - Canard - 02-17-2017 The Functional Design Plans suggest that the buses will cross the tracks, to the outboard side: ...despite going through here a couple of times a week, I'm actually at a loss as to wether or not the curbing currently supports this design. I'll have to take a look later today! RE: Grand River Transit - Markster - 02-17-2017 At Uptown, the on-the-ground reality says that the buses will be stopping north of the Spur Line, which represents a move north of the bus stop by about 100m. They'll be removing the Erb St stop, which will balance out the shift. What I'm more concerned with is at William. The plans showed an island between the tracks and the road (not unlike the one on King St just south of Victoria,) but no island was built. RE: Grand River Transit - Canard - 02-17-2017 Shoot, I'm sorry, I've done it again - I've confused "William" with "Willis Way"... argh! RE: Grand River Transit - danbrotherston - 02-17-2017 (02-17-2017, 04:13 PM)Markster Wrote: At Uptown, the on-the-ground reality says that the buses will be stopping north of the Spur Line, which represents a move north of the bus stop by about 100m. They'll be removing the Erb St stop, which will balance out the shift. Maybe 7s will keep going up Park....*hopeful* ... ...*ducks* RE: Grand River Transit - yige_t - 02-23-2017 Modifications to 2017 Service Changes: http://www.grt.ca/en/aboutus/resources/2017-Service-plan.pdf New items (pending Council approval):
http://www.grt.ca/en/aboutus/resources/2018-transit-network.pdf Route 2 and 20 will be swapped in east Kitchener:
RE: Grand River Transit - goggolor - 02-24-2017 GRT confirmed on Twitter that they won't be restoring the Uptown or Grand River Hospital iXpress stops until September 2017 (because they "expect further closures on King this spring for ION deficiency work"), and that the #7 will also remain on Park St until September. RE: Grand River Transit - KevinL - 02-24-2017 Quote: ION deficiency workI'm guessing this means 'fixing stuff on the ROW that wasn't done right the first time'. Odd that they're anticipating so much of this that they don't want to run buses, but I guess they know better than we do. RE: Grand River Transit - MidTowner - 02-24-2017 If it's only six months between moving the 200 to King and the launch of Ion, I'd be tempted to suggest they leave the 200 routing as is, since riders have gotten used to it. My preference would be that they move it to King as soon as possible, though...it really seems strange to leave it to the autumn. How much "deficiency work" could be going on six months from now? RE: Grand River Transit - Canard - 02-24-2017 That makes me wonder if they're anticipating ripping up a bunch of embedded track and re-laying it after on-street testing starts... lawd. RE: Grand River Transit - timio - 02-24-2017 Typically deficiencies are found through a cooperative process near the end of construction, or even after the keys have been handed over. I remember having a crew walk through one of my offices a few weeks after I moved in marking deficiencies. You'd hope most of the big items were caught along the way, but some small surface level things will be scrutinized closer to handover. |