denfromoakvillemilton
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I looked at the pop projections from the government. Durham will have nearly 1 million people in 20 years. They need to get something done.
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denfromoakvillemilton
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Could they just run buses along the shoulder of the 407?
SunriseChampion
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Clarification number two: The amalgamation and creation of DRT has actually improved transit in Pickering. Holy shit....I'm not even lying!
And that is how bad it is.
And that is how bad it is.
denfromoakvillemilton
Senior Member
The Hamilton Toronto region needs to get it together. This is actually annoying considering all the promises that were made.
jswag
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Haha, thanks for your clarifications MTown. I live on the other side of the Rouge so I'm familiar with the general absurdities of transit in Durham, but I am unfamiliar with transit on a personal level, as I avoid it there like the plague. (Point of ridiculousness-- easier/faster/cheaper to get to STC (~15km) from my area than to PTC (~9km))
SunriseChampion
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You're very welcome! It's quite shit living here. Now, I really hate suburbs like this, so I'm at least glad that I live on a farm in the rural north. But, all my friends in Durham live in the cities so I'm there all the time. I'm also always going to Toronto (downtown) and other places so I travel a lot.
The transit situation here is bloody sad and embarrassing. I'm going to go ahead and make a Europe comparison here to illustrate the absurdity of the place. Where my mum's side is from in the Czech Rep., is a city about the size of Pickering which has a more extensive, reliable, logical, BETTER transit system than all of DRT. Hell, you can throw in Durham's GO Transit service in there and Durham still falls behind. That's a city of ~100K having a more extensive system with buses that run much more frequently than once an hourthan Durham.....a regional municipality of ~600K
Fucked up? You bet it is!
It really pisses me off, actually. I've lived here between late 2000 and 2003 and then again now since '07 and it's bothered me so much. It makes living in the suburbs especially daunting, soul-destroying, and horrid.
Thank the maker, I'm moving downtown Toronto this summer! Get me the hell out of this hellhole, please and thank you!
The transit situation here is bloody sad and embarrassing. I'm going to go ahead and make a Europe comparison here to illustrate the absurdity of the place. Where my mum's side is from in the Czech Rep., is a city about the size of Pickering which has a more extensive, reliable, logical, BETTER transit system than all of DRT. Hell, you can throw in Durham's GO Transit service in there and Durham still falls behind. That's a city of ~100K having a more extensive system with buses that run much more frequently than once an hourthan Durham.....a regional municipality of ~600K
Fucked up? You bet it is!
It really pisses me off, actually. I've lived here between late 2000 and 2003 and then again now since '07 and it's bothered me so much. It makes living in the suburbs especially daunting, soul-destroying, and horrid.
Thank the maker, I'm moving downtown Toronto this summer! Get me the hell out of this hellhole, please and thank you!
denfromoakvillemilton
Senior Member
We are so different in that case. Durham is my number one even above Halton or Hamilton for me to move besides Toronto. I always had a thing for Pickering and Oshawa.
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SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Yeah, there're 600K other people that might agree with you. I ain't one of them.