Grand River Transit

[chutten]

I'm not liking the short-turn of the 92 at UW. It was the only local service along Fischer-Hallman that could connect with ION.

The 201 will connect with ION

Sadly, the 201 isn't local service.

I'm in one of those pockets of white in the blue coverage map. I successfully petitioned for a new 92 stop (F-H @ Craigleath/Roxton) so that my neighbourhood could be covered. Maybe I can get them to upgrade it to a 201 stop before the route change? The density really doesn't warrant it. At all. But I'm getting tired of seeing my bus skip my stop as its estimated arrival time takes a delta of 3min over the 11min it takes to walk there.

As for the positioning of the UW-adjacent stops... that stop in the middle of UW originally seemed ludicrous to me, too. However, I can now see a few reasons why it's better than having stops at University and/or Columbia. No pedestrian actually wants to be at University @ Seagram, dozens or hundreds of metres from anywhere, stranded in that sea of asphalt. We've done too good of a job tailoring these streets to cars that there's little a pedestrian could possibly want at those bus stops, except to leave (unless waiting for a connection).

And all the while, buses are clogging up the right-hand lane.

Push the bus stop into UW's East Campus, though, and the buses are only clogging up other buses on that East Campus laneway (and even then, not much given the dedicated bus bays). Riders will come and go in all directions (except perhaps into the old RIM campus buildings, though I expect decent foot traffic during rush) as there are campus buildings, the plaza, and high density residential all around. To say nothing of an ION stop.

In short, I've done a full heel-face-turn from derision to appreciation.