[Bordercollie]

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).

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.

 

[Northern Light]

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.

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.

 

[Bordercollie]

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.

It's just a talking point..

 

[not_taylor]

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)

 

[futurebound]

Honestly incredible how little green they have, in particular, compared to Toronto's 10 minute network. They can't even get the full length of Yonge to have 15 minute service 7 days a week.

 

[Northern Light]

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

Excellent work!

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

I think any final product you may wish to upsize the legend for easy legibility.

 

[not_taylor]

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.

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).

 

[canarob]

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.

 

[not_taylor]

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.

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.

 

[canarob]

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.

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.

 

[ShonTron]

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.

It’s also really annoying how bad VIVA serves the Stouffville GO Station.

 

[nfitz]

It’s also really annoying how bad VIVA serves the Stouffville GO Station.

The Viva and YRT service to Unionville is surprisingly poor too. I thought that was supposed to their showcase.

But hard to get to. It's easier to drop down south from near 7 and go along Steeles to Milliken.

 

[ShonTron]

The Viva and YRT service to Unionville is surprisingly poor too. I thought that was supposed to their showcase.

But hard to get to. It's easier to drop down south from near 7 and go along Steeles to Milliken.

Unionville is what I meant. But Stouffville is really poorly served by just Route 9.

 

[Bordercollie]

Unionville is what I meant. But Stouffville is really poorly served by just Route 9.

Considering that the 77 bus is faster than BRT tells you that they don't care about speed.

 

[Sandpit]

Considering that the 77 bus is faster than BRT tells you that they don't care about speed.

I think it has to do with the fact that the YRT buses are shorter and accelerate faster. Sometimes you’d see a 99 or 98/99 bus “race” a Viva Blue at night and the YRT bus usually “wins”.