Grand River Transit

[Bytor]

The misinformation in the Facebook comments was ridiculous, even for Facebook.

[danbrotherston]

The misinformation in the Facebook comments was ridiculous, even for Facebook.

Lol...I haven't bothered visit Facebook in years. Although I will say I left it for Twitter, but now I look the fool after Twitter was bought by a Nazi...or at least a man with such a fragile ego, that he's desperate to be friends with Nazis.

[ac3r]

Twitter is still good as long as you don't purposely go down right wing rabbit holes. I know it's full of trash but I never see it since I only follow friends.

Social media is fine if you curate your feeds correctly.

[ac3r]

Does anyone know why GRT isn't current using the short buses they use on routes like 27 and I think 28? I've noticed they're running the big buses on this route and have closed off at least 1 or 2 stops.

[tomh009]

Does anyone know why GRT isn't current using the short buses they use on routes like 27 and I think 28? I've noticed they're running the big buses on this route and have closed off at least 1 or 2 stops.

I would assume the smaller buses are being used on other routes already. Economically it makes sense to run the smallest bus (that can carry the expected passengers) that is available.

[ac3r]

I know, but I'm saying they seem to have pulled them from the fleet on the routes they were on. I wonder if they had a problem with them or if they're undergoing maintenance. I haven't seen any in probably over a week.

[KevinL]

I've heard from some folks familiar with bus operations, that the smaller model used by GRT has reliability issues. Not sure if that is the actual factor here.

[ac3r]

Interesting, that was my first guess too. When they first started using them, I always overheard the drivers saying how bad they are. I've never really heard of VMC/Vicinity Motor Corp until we bought a few but they don't seem to be a popular bus manufacturer. Seems like they only make 3 things: a general truck, the VMC bus we have and then an electric version of the same.

[tomh009]

Vicinity is new, created specifically to address the mid-size bus niche, which was not being addressed by the larger manufacturers. $12M in revenues last year, so not big yet, but that in itself doesn't really say anything about the quality of their products.

[nms]

Going in the opposite direction, when will the articulated buses be in service?

[SF22]

Going in the opposite direction, when will the articulated buses be in service?

I was under the impression that they hadn't even been purchased yet, and also that there might need to be some light construction work done along the route(s) that will have the articulated buses, so that the far rear door opens onto a proper landing pad.

[creative]

Is there anywhere that I can find ridership broken down to show the percentage of student trips? Just curious to see if the increase in ridership correlates with the recent increase in student population.

[ac3r]

I don't know of any such data available, but I could see that explaining the rise in ridership. Sometimes you can get on a bus and all but 2-3 people are Indian, yourself included.

If there is no such data available, maybe you could take the data/charts on the ridership growth with data/charts on the influx of students and compare the two. I suspect any line graph of both data sets would look quite similar.

[Bytor]

This article https://uwimprint.ca/article/hey-grt-whe...ndy-buses/ claims that procurement was put off until 2027. Somebody cited it to me on reddit today, but this is the first I've heard of the chain in plans. I've not been able to find any corroborating evidence, either.

[jeremyroman]

The Record recently published an article which compares Fall 2019 to Fall 2023.