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not_taylor said:
YRT's 2026 Annual Service Plan is out.

Overall
- 76,000 new annual service hours budgeted for 2026
- Restructure of service around Cornell to better utilise the terminal
- Many service increases in Vaughan and Markham
- New express network plan
- New blue night network plan

Frequency/capacity improvements
- Viva blue, Viva orange, 8, 20, 24, 50, 54, 68B, 91, 102D, 129A, 165, 300

Route restructures
- 1 Highway 7 shortened to Cornell with improved frequency
- 2 Milliken shortened to Markham Rd at all times with improved frequency
- 9 Ninth Line extended to Steeles and Markham Road with new weekend service
- 13 Islington extended north to Kleinburg and south to Humber College via Kipling and Finch
- 14 14th Ave simplified with improved frequency and new Saturday service
- 21 Vellore extended south to VMC via Ansley Grove and north to Major Mackenzie West Terminal with new 2 way service
- 26 Maple rerouted along Creditstone with new weekday off-peak service

New routes
- 19 Copper Creek new route to provide local service in Box Grove 7 days a week approximately every half hour
- 29 Edgeley new route to provide local service along Vellore Woods, Cityview Blvd, and Teston Walmart Distribution Centre at rush hours

On request
- King zone new late evening service
- Gormley and North-Central zones merged to provide a single zone from Richmond Hill to Pefferlaw
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TY for that.

A direct link to the document for everyone:


From the above: ( I am not posting all slides, but most, picking ones I found more interesting )

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This next one is interesting as a few of us were discussing the need for service to McMichael over the in thread for the gallery. @ShonTron

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I mean its not great..but its essential from zero service to .. some service.

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To be continued, next post.
 
Con't from above:

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Feedback Survey will be open on May 4th, 2025, then close June 1st, 2025.

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My overall take: This is one of the best Service Plans they've produced in years.

Meaningful expansions of span of service from adding mid-day or weekends on some routes, to a core 24-hour network.
Some pretty key frequency jumps, moving services from less than hourly to greater, less than 1/2 hourly to greater and some services moving to sub 15M in some periods.

There remains lots of room for improvement, but overall this is a big step in the right direction.

If I were to nitpick, I'd really like to see a hard push toward clockface service on some routes, where feasible with few or no additional vehicles (rounding service up)
I'd also generally like to see a minimum of hourly on every route during each span of service, and I'd like to see core Sunday hours, wherever Saturdays are present.
I'd be happy with that for 2026.

Now they really need a similarly ambitious improvement plan for 2027 as a follow up, one that will deliver every 15M or better rush hour service on most core routes.

Extend the same for mid-day.

And then bulk out the 24-hour network, just a bit. (one more N-S route on each side of Yonge for now.)
 
Northern Light said:
Con't from above:

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Feedback Survey will be open on May 4th, 2025, then close June 1st, 2025.

****

My overall take: This is one of the best Service Plans they've produced in years.

Meaningful expansions of span of service from adding mid-day or weekends on some routes, to a core 24-hour network.
Some pretty key frequency jumps, moving services from less than hourly to greater, less than 1/2 hourly to greater and some services moving to sub 15M in some periods.

There remains lots of room for improvement, but overall this is a big step in the right direction.

If I were to nitpick, I'd really like to see a hard push toward clockface service on some routes, where feasible with few or no additional vehicles (rounding service up)
I'd also generally like to see a minimum of hourly on every route during each span of service, and I'd like to see core Sunday hours, wherever Saturdays are present.
I'd be happy with that for 2026.

Now they really need a similarly ambitious improvement plan for 2027 as a follow up, one that will deliver every 15M or better rush hour service on most core routes.

Extend the same for mid-day.

And then bulk out the 24-hour network, just a bit. (one more N-S route on each side of Yonge for now.)
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Finally overnight service is in the cards, and better than what I expected too (I would never have guessed that Leslie, Woodbine and Keele are in play)
 
Sandpit said:
Finally overnight service is in the cards, and better than what I expected too (I would never have guessed that Leslie, Woodbine and Keele are in play)
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it would be better if the also included bayview and maybe bathurst in the over night routes
 
Islington Express Bus said:
^ Featuring yours truly as his guide!
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Well done!

And it highlights everything that is wrong with VIVA in its current state.

Absolutely amazing BRT infrastructure. With the exceptions of the single lane under the 404. The mixed traffic section leading to RHC. Zero signal priority ahead of traffic, combined with the far side stops. And that abysmal frequency.

It looks like the demand is there for better service, judging by the loads experienced in the video.
 
EYorker said:
Well done!

And it highlights everything that is wrong with VIVA in its current state.

Absolutely amazing BRT infrastructure. With the exceptions of the single lane under the 404. The mixed traffic section leading to RHC. Zero signal priority ahead of traffic, combined with the far side stops. And that abysmal frequency.

It looks like the demand is there for better service, judging by the loads experienced in the video.
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IMO that’s half of it. The other half is that YRT/York Regional Council insists on aiming for 40% fare recovery (which to be fair has been lowered from the wildly unrealistic 50% and 45%). IIRC they’re at about 36% or so, so if they would settle for 35% or 33%, it would be a more attractive service.

Perhaps this plan is the start of them abandoning 40% fare recovery or them realizing that they’ll never get there by cutting service and raising fares…
 
@Islington Express Bus said it: Why isn't the TTC doing this?
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Displaying real-time arrivals for connecting buses at a stop.

Despite YRT's atrocious scheduling, they've always been at the forefront of technology - first with next stop displays/announcements, first with "Stockholm-style" INIT next bus displays - now first with bus connections displayed, at ~9:15 in the video.

Ps. I love how Miles' comments turned into a mini-UT forum...

Thank you Michael!
 
Mind_the_gap said:
@Islington Express Bus said it: Why isn't the TTC doing this?
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Displaying real-time arrivals for connecting buses at a stop.

Despite YRT's atrocious scheduling, they've always been at the forefront of technology - first with next stop displays/announcements, first with "Stockholm-style" INIT next bus displays - now first with bus connections displayed, at ~9:15 in the video.

Ps. I love how Miles' comments turned into a mini-UT forum...

Thank you Michael!
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It does annoy me how 3/4ths of the connecting buses are just viva Blue buses.
 
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