rdaner
Senior Member
This is almost a 45% increase! Any other NA metros coming close?!
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txlseries4
Active Member
The stations on the map don’t align consistently?? Next you’ll be telling me it’s not to scale!! 
Lyphe
Active Member
Love this and it is immediately easier to read and more informative.
ThenWhat
Active Member
Some of us now speculate that when Line 5 opens, it will offer a limited service, just like Line 6, for at least a few months at the beginning, hopefully not forever. Something like 6 to 10 minute frequency, on and off peak. If that is the case, does it make sense to change all the bus routes feeding to it on Day One?
A 6264
Active Member
I presume you mean, if service is limited, it will cause many people to take the bus instead, so buses should use stops outside the station, at present-day transfer points. I suspect that will happen anyway, as long as parallel bus routes exist. Buses going into a station will also stop outside the station on Eglinton, so everybody gets service.
Leo_Chan
Senior Member
I think service being limited from reduced frequency along with all bus routes being adjusted to final configuration assuming full capacity may lead to overcrowding. Sort of like funnelling everything into a less than adequate sized pipe, causing water to build up. In this case it would be passengers transferring from buses on the platforms trying to enter full trains. The existing parallel bus service will have the frequencies reduced or removed entirely, so there is no reasonable alternative.
However, without actually seeing projections and simulations I don't feel it is guaranteed to happen.
A 6264
Active Member
Current bus service on Eglinton is so bad, whatever happens next can't be worse. (Crosses fingers.
)Also, I used to agree that bus service along Eglinton would likely be removed in future, but everyone on here was telling me I was wrong!
McGillicuddy
Active Member
One of the only things that went right around the launch of the Confederation Line is that they kept the parallel bus services running for a few weeks after the line opened. This meant that, if things really went sideways, they could shut the line down without having to scramble a bunch of shuttle buses. While the line's launch was still pretty calamitous, this helped blunt the worst of the impacts. (Riders experienced outages as disruptions instead of as personal disasters, newspapers had headlines about "LRT still not ready for prime time" rather than "DAY 4 OF COMMUTE FROM HELL", etc.)
Feels to me like keeping at least a partial bus service running during your initial launch is a sensible approach, especially if you have serious concerns about the line's stability.
Feels to me like keeping at least a partial bus service running during your initial launch is a sensible approach, especially if you have serious concerns about the line's stability.
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A 6264
Active Member
Again, from what I've been told, the LRT service will be replaced by a night bus at night, and probably in late evenings after 10 PM for the first few months. Furthermore, subway lines over the last decade or so have been closed in late evenings on weekends or Mondays, for track and/or signal work, sometimes dragging on for years. I would be shocked if the Eglinton line turned out to have no problems requiring pre-midnight closures over the next few years.
nfitz
Superstar
Do you know why it's changed from the plan they've had for years, of running a 34 Eglinton bus from Mount Dennis to Kennedy all day?
McGillicuddy
Active Member
Per Steve Munro, as of October, the 32 and 34 still factored into the TTC's planning for a post-Crosstown bus network.
stevemunro.ca
TTC Service Changes Effective October 12, 2025
Major Update October 10 at 12:50pm: Additional information on bus bay assignments at various stations, on street stop arrangements pending Line 5 opening, and service changes not mentioned in earli…
stevemunro.ca
chrisw
Active Member
From Steve Munro, TTC 2026 Budget Preview. They're doing something similar by keeping the buses and operators as a "contingency".
jordanmkasla2009
Active Member
long term plan still includes the 34 afaik as an infrequent accessibility link like the 97 Yonge bus but in the short-term as a parallel bus service that they can quickly convert to Line 5 Shuttles when needed and for 10PM - 2AM for the first few months of operation per the Ottawa LRT recommendations. Basically one of the criticisms from the report was that OC Transpo was too quick to completely remove bus service hours after the launch of the Confederation Line and it resulted in the inability to respond in a timely manner to disruptions in LRT service that resulted from teething issues. The TTC has not planned to completely remove bus service hours as a result of the launch of Line 5 & 6 but rather redeploy those service hours to improve bus service in other parts of the city.
smallspy
Senior Member
The bus service will remain on Eglinton once the Crosstown opens, but will be quite a bit different than what runs today.
The 34 will operate from end-to-end on Eglinton (Mount Dennis to Kennedy), and at low (15 minute) frequencies. Think of it as an equivalent of the 97 and the Yonge subway.
The 32 will be cut back to only run west from Mount Dennis.
Most routes that currently run on the central part of Eglinton for any great distance (51, 54, 56) will be greatly changed and will either no longer run on Eglinton at all, or only for a couple of blocks.
Overnight service will still be provided by buses.
Dan
KhalilHeron
Active Member
I was under the impression the new 34 would run every 30 mins, not sure where i heard that