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chrisw said:
"The 2025 Transit Initiatives will cost about 33,000 annual service hours or $3 million in operating costs."
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The hours count is of note, many services across the GTA are budgeting for increases of 50,000+ hours this year, and York Region/YRT is already a service laggard.

They need to add at least 150,000 hours of service to get to a reasonable level. Which at their current pacing will take 5 more years minimum.
 
Sandpit said:
Once again disappointed that overnight service does not get a single mention.
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I agree, but I can't emphasize enough the need for you to get your neighbours, and community groups to mobilize and to demand better.

I know its a pain, we all have limited free time.

But its necessary, the system will not change itself without outside pressure.

But its chicken and egg, with terrible service, YRT attracts relatively low ridership, and relying on a relatively small number of riders to complain to make things better isn't enough pressure.

People need to be reminded that better transit allows their car to go faster in traffic, helps their kids get to school/college/uni, or can be relied on when their car is in the shop.

If YRT got the benefit of just a 1% property tax increase in York Region it would be able to improve by leaps and bounds. (about 15M in revenue, which would be about a 1/3 increase in subsidy).
 
Northern Light said:
I agree, but I can't emphasize enough the need for you to get your neighbours, and community groups to mobilize and to demand better.

I know its a pain, we all have limited free time.

But its necessary, the system will not change itself without outside pressure.

But its chicken and egg, with terrible service, YRT attracts relatively low ridership, and relying on a relatively small number of riders to complain to make things better isn't enough pressure.

People need to be reminded that better transit allows their car to go faster in traffic, helps their kids get to school/college/uni, or can be relied on when their car is in the shop.

If YRT got the benefit of just a 1% property tax increase in York Region it would be able to improve by leaps and bounds. (about 15M in revenue, which would be about a 1/3 increase in subsidy).
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The first GO bus to the airport leaves Richmond Hill around 4:30 am.

Ideally you want the first bus to leave Newmarket terminal so it arrives 5 minutes before that bus. The first bus leaves Newmarket around 5:30am meaning you won't be at Richmond Hill untill 6:30 ish.

It's not that great.
 
Bordercollie said:
The first GO bus to the airport leaves Richmond Hill around 4:30 am.

Ideally you want the first bus to leave Newmarket terminal so it arrives 5 minutes before that bus. The first bus leaves Newmarket around 5:30am meaning you won't be at Richmond Hill untill 6:30 ish.

It's not that great.
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Ok....but why are you tell me this?

Aside from the fact I already know............. I'm not in charge of YRT's budget or service.
 
Wanted to share this map I made as part of a project I'm working on visualising service frequency in York Region and how far they still have to go to remotely reach FTN status on their network (even just reaching a 30 min daily service on several base routes)
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not_taylor said:
Wanted to share this map I made as part of a project I'm working on visualising service frequency in York Region and how far they still have to go to remotely reach FTN status on their network (even just reaching a 30 min daily service on several base routes)View attachment 627771
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Excellent work!

At this size though, people may struggle to read the legend, so here it is, enlarged a bit:

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I think any final product you may wish to upsize the legend for easy legibility.
 
Northern Light said:
Excellent work!

At this size though, people may struggle to read the legend, so here it is, enlarged a bit:

View attachment 627772

I think any final product you may wish to upsize the legend for easy legibility.
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Thanks! Apologies, it looked a lot clearer before I uploaded it to this site. I'll try and make it larger for the next area I'm focusing on (Peel).
 
Why are the rapidways on Highway 7 only being used frequently on weekdays? Traffic is awful on weekends; use the infrastructure and ridership will build. All of highway 7 deserves frequent service as well, my goodness.
 
canarob said:
Why are the rapidways on Highway 7 only being used frequently on weekdays? Traffic is awful on weekends; use the infrastructure and ridership will build. All of highway 7 deserves frequent service as well, my goodness.
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The service design of viva purple (the different runtimes between purple and purple A make it impossible to coordinate schedules leading to a lot of wasted hours to attempt to blend service), the usage of artics in place of smaller 40ft buses like on orange and yellow, coupled with a general budget shortfall across the network mean the Hwy 7 corridor gets screwed for frequency.
 
not_taylor said:
The service design of viva purple (the different runtimes between purple and purple A make it impossible to coordinate schedules leading to a lot of wasted hours to attempt to blend service), the usage of artics in place of smaller 40ft buses like on orange and yellow, coupled with a general budget shortfall across the network mean the Hwy 7 corridor gets screwed for frequency.
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You would think YRT could figure something out for York Region's most important street with three major growth centres and numerous other local growth centres.
 
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