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  1. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I get it too – a phase in with premium parking spaces (replacing/augmenting the reserved spots) would be a good place to start.
  2. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Not a bad idea, or just require users to pay via app or machine by inputting their license plate. It’d be simpler than a gate, especially when you can easily enforce it with an enforcement officer in a plate-reading car. They only get out to ticket or check a vehicle without a front plate who...
  3. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Not in the counter peak direction
  4. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    But counter-peak service (to/from Bramalea) is also only every hour too.
  5. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    It’s not, though. It’s only weekday midday and evening. Not weekends, not during peak hours.
  6. ShonTron

    Brampton Transit/Zum

    Route 41 is quite the downgrade from the 30-minute service on the old Bolton bus. I know BT still has a bus and driver shortage, but still.
  7. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I took that Route 21 between Milton and Oakville a few times. The transfer to the Highway 407 bus services at Trafalgar Road Park & Ride was a busy stop. The new schedule doesn't help with that.
  8. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    With the Gardiner down to two lanes by the CNE grounds for the next three years, I’m not sure if this was a good idea. Edit: there's a new Route 22 between Milton and Oakville, weekdays only, with a limited schedule...
  9. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Even by European standards, you’ll probably have a train every hour between Toronto and Kitchener. It would probably make fewer stops and be a shorter ride, but it’s not as if this is a local transit service.
  10. ShonTron

    Brampton Transit/Zum

    It’s already a better route than the old Bolton Bus Caledon ran (contracted to Voyago), as it’s not a loop, and it will offer free transfers on a BT fare, which Caledon did not. Brampton too can only operate what Caledon tells them to, as it’s a contract route.
  11. ShonTron

    King Street (Streetcar Transit Priority)

    Drivers are increasingly ungovernable. I drive on occasion and I’m seeing more “Pittsburgh lefts” where a driver will rush the green light to make a left turn before oncoming traffic is able to clear the intersection. Motorists are becoming increasingly aggressive and callous on Toronto...
  12. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    The JR line between Nara and Kyoto has only one mainline track (and passing sidings) and it has local and express service. You only need more than one track per direction at places where trains running in the same direction need to pass each other. The Davenport Diamond viaduct is not one of...
  13. ShonTron

    Mississauga Toronto | Hurontario-Main Line 10 LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    You’ll notice the same along many sections of the York Region “Rapidways”
  14. ShonTron

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    For one thing, the flooding in the Lower Don is being mitigated as we type. That’s not going to be as much of an issue in the future. As for Via HF/SR, I would not be shocked if they took a route from the CP Havelock Sub down to a new connection to the GO Uxbridge Sub in Agincourt. CP is going...
  15. ShonTron

    Intercity Bus Services

    In the 1990s, it was at the McDonalds in Parry Sound. In the last years of Greyhound, it was at the Lick’s at Seguin Trail just south of Parry Sound.
  16. ShonTron

    Toronto Toronto | Social at Church + Dundas | 164.89m | 52s | Pemberton | RAW Design

    The only good thing is that this shitbox takes up a much smaller footprint than Time & Space.
  17. ShonTron

    Intercity Bus Services

    Under the old regime, when Greyhound and Ontario Northland both ran between Toronto and Sudbury, Greyhound was not permitted to make revenue stops between Barrie and Sudbury; it had a rest stop in Parry Sound but was not allowed to discharge or take on customers. Interesting that Flixbus is...
  18. ShonTron

    Bookstores (Chapters/Indigo/R-B)

    In actuality, she selling the chain to her husband.
  19. ShonTron

    Brampton Transit/Zum

    I went to the Bramalea PIC just now, and here’s what I can report: Yes, the 501C will make all stops on Highway 7 in Vaughan, making it by far the most frequent service on any Viva rapidway during rush hours. The 407 tolls are ridiculously expensive. The Bolton bus is assumed by Brampton...
  20. ShonTron

    2024 United States presidential election

    The other unknown is how many Democratic voters will just stay home or cast a protest vote. The last four years have hardly been inspiring and comments from old guard politicians like Hillary Clinton have been really tone deaf. Biden’s exceptionally strong support for Israel’s offensive in...

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