Yep. Imagine the confused newbie public transit rider.
"Downtown Markham? You want the local busway, this is the express busway. Go up the stairs, cross the overpass (be careful), cross the on-ramp, go over the next bridge, descend the stairs, walk over to the lights, and to the centre of the street. That's the local busway.
"Or did you want Markham Village? Well, then..."
Haha
To everyone wondering about the point of the Transitway, when most of it will run very close to Highway 7 and Viva purple, I see two or three important functions it will serve.
First of all is the obvious, it will provide faster service, and will connect many different hubs directly, with it's own 407 transitway route.
Second is that other regional bus routes can use the transitway to improve their travel times considerably (I do assume) By bypassing a highway like this, travel times could be significantly reduced. If you ask me, anything that gives a better right of way than regular car travel will attract more people, even if that includes using a right of way for only part of the trip.
Third is special to Viva Purple. Viva Purple busses could use the Transitway to easily get back to the start of their route during rush hour, as using the bus right of ways doesn't work very well when other busses will be blocking it's path to the start while doing their regular service.
That was just a way of me saying that
I love this project. I assume there are plans to extend it into Peel and Durham after the smaller stretch gets completed and started? Also, what's the price tag on this stretch?
What do you people think the feasibility of running it LRT-style, paved, but with new Go trains, such as maybe the Talent? So it could have higher capacity on the route itself, but also allow it to run as a bus ROW.
Sorry for that very sloppy monster of a post, but I'm interested in this project, and I'd like to know the details. Thanks for bearing with it
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