The plan has taken some time but the end result is very encouraging - it lays out a great plan for improving our transit system over the next few years. In particular three of the biggest problems with the current system (operating hours, frequency and coverage) will be addressed in the new plan:
• Operational hours will be extended to 6:20am to 10:00pm M-F, 10:00am to 6:00pm Saturdays and 10:30am to 5:00pm Sundays.
• Service frequency will now be 40 minutes on all routes and every 20 minutes on selected routes during peak times.
• New routes will be established to connect to pretty much all subdivisions of the city. (see the rout map below).
There also a lot more in the plan; a downtown transit terminal, standards for bus stops and the possibility of linking up with the school system to replace the yellow busses for high school students. (The document is about 100 pages long) as soon as it's up on the city's website I'll post a link to it here - or in the mean time if you're interested email me and I'll send you the pdf.
So this is great progress but there is still some work to do as each of the recommendations / ideas in the plan require resources and that means money.
UPDATE: You can download the new transit route guide here (It's 3MB .pdf)
2 comments:
I meant to comment on this before, but never did...
Do you have any idea offhand, what kind of changes will be happening for September?
I've noticed lately that 2 or 3 or more of the buses are newer, and now have bike racks on the front.. so almost wondered if maybe the transit routes have already been updated. Nothing is listed on the GP transit site though as of yet.
Ask and you shall receive! There is information coming to the Public Works committee this week.
3 news routes will launch on Sept 8th.
Check this post for details:
http://is.gd/2wuyd
Cheers!
BG
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