09-27-2016, 06:27 AM
What were the transit options between Cambridge and Kitchener prior to GRT? I wonder if the lack of transit links between Guelph and KW is an interjurisdictional issue more than anything else.
For transit services that are still primarily subsidized by tax payers, servicing areas outside the local transit area is much harder to justify, no matter how beneficial it may be to local users. Politically, I can only see it working as a joint service between GRT and Guelph Transit, but it would require negotiating how cost sharing would work, which requires someone taking the initiative and driving the project, with little to gain politically.
For transit services that are still primarily subsidized by tax payers, servicing areas outside the local transit area is much harder to justify, no matter how beneficial it may be to local users. Politically, I can only see it working as a joint service between GRT and Guelph Transit, but it would require negotiating how cost sharing would work, which requires someone taking the initiative and driving the project, with little to gain politically.