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Often, the driver knows very little about the neighbourhood they are driving in. Why they stand at the stops, with other people, and instead want to ask the driver, who may well live in Milton, I don't know. Especially when it's about which other bus to take to get where ...
You and I are talking about different things, I think. Consider this (imaginary) example: Someone gets on bus 34 Eglinton eastbound at Mt. Pleasant, the bus is travelling from Eglinton to Kenneday stations, and the passenger asks, "Does this bus go to the subway?" The answer is yes, eventually, but it's likely the passenger is trying to get to Eglinton station, and is going the wrong way. When the driver asks, which station, or which direction will they be going when they get to a station, the passenger just says, "I want the subway". If the driver advises the passenger should be going in the other direction to get to the nearest station, the passenger may still be confused, and give up, staying on the bus that's taking them the wrong way. I'm not making fun of people or being dismissive, I just think it's sad that I've seen this happen so often. As for asking other passengers instead of TTC personnel, I see that happen too, with the same results. I do agree that if the passenger is asking about something else entirely, like how to get to a local business, another passenger might know better than a driver, but then again, the reverse is just as likely, in my experience both as an observer, and as one who occasionally needs to ask directions myself.
Please, let's not be giving sections of the same station different names. You'll have people asking which train will take them from Cedarvale to Eglinton West. (But I'm being a hypocrite because I like the Yonge and Bloor platforms having different names, and I hope the TTC never changes them.)
Not only it’s cheap. There are near impossible to read in the dark. They have gone this route on many signage throughout the system by replacing backlit signs with a mostly black wooden board. If they want to do this, they should install lights to shine on it.
No, pretty much the same thing. Though more often a street (though you see all things). Meanwhile there's a dozen of people at the stop, who'd mostly be able to give (often better) help; and certainly less rushed help ... with it easy to point to the stop they might need.
Hmmm... I do not see streetcars & buses as equivalent & most definitely would choose a route that uses the former over the latter when the option exists. And I'd like to visually be able to see my subway & streetcar options together, not on different maps. But I guess it is also true that most of us will just use Google Maps to plan our routes, not maps, so perhaps the point is moot.
While most transit nerds would prefer a streetcar to a bus (myself included), the reality is that to the average person they are equivalent. Both types operate in mixed traffic on busy streets, do not have level boarding, and require payment when boarding the vehicle.
I wonder if there's been a study on that. It's just anecdotal, but most of my non-transit nerd friends have also expressed their preference for the smoother riding streetcar over the rough bus any time I've brought it up.
Why is Line 6 so dinky? And goes... nowhere?
Because it's in the suburbs, they don't have destinations out there.
I'm not sure I'd call Etobicoke General Hospital and the 20,000 people at Humber Polytechnic – the western terminus – nowhere. Or the Jane & Finch neighbourhood. With almost 40,000 riders a day in Fall 2024, the 36 Finch West has the highest ridership of any bus route in Toronto, exceed only by the 504 King and even higher than Line 4. It was 55,000 pre-Covid in 2019. Admittedly some of the 36 traffic is between Finch West and Finch station.
