05-22-2016, 07:03 AM
(05-21-2016, 09:56 AM)goggolor Wrote: Apparently with the Spring/Summer schedule GRT has changed the stops for the 200 iXpress yet again, and removed the stops at Weber/Union and Weber/Guelph that were added last year. Now there are no stops between King/Erb and Charles St Terminal (except maybe King/Victoria, which seems to be variable).
Interestingly, although the Weber/Union stop is no longer on the time schedule for the 200, it still appears on the map on the front of the schedule - but if you look up the stop # through EasyGo the app says it is no longer in service.
I can admit that these stops didn't seem very well-used, but one of them should have been kept. That's a very long distance not to have stops. It doesn't make sense to me to have neighbourhoods that will be served by Ion but which are not served by any frequent service now. And the rationale makes no sense: because Mount Hope and Breithaupt are again served by the 4, a half-hourly local service, it doesn't need to be served by the iXpress.
This isn't the way to build ridership. The Weber/Guelph stop was serving a lot of the same people who we will want to use the Grand River Hospital station in 2017. I guess they're going to get into the habit of driving instead.