[chrisw]

Interesting, open payments and cash cost $1 more than Presto. And Youth only get a 10% discount.

 

[KawarthaTransiteer]

This weekend and next weekend, DRT will be running late night specials that meet trains for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, with trips running between 10 PM and 2 AM. The schedule is here: https://www.durhamregiontransit.com/en/routes-and-schedules/resources/Swift_Schedule_Map_2024.pdf

There will be 4 specials, providing drop-off only service to southern Durham, except for Bowmanville:

• The Evermore Loop Special, which serves Pickering, and mostly follows the routing of the 121.
• The Folklore Loop Special, which serves northern Ajax via Westney and Salem.
• The Reputation Loop Special, which serves southern Ajax, and mostly follows the routing of the 227A.
• The Fearless West Special and Fearless East Special, which serve Whitby, Oshawa, and Courtice via Rossland, Trulls, Bloor, and Brock Street. The east special leaves Whitby GO, and the west special leaves Oshawa GO.

 

[Coolibop]

From the latest regional finance commitee, we are not able to order the electric busses that were budgeted this year.

Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (formerly Infrastructure Canada) has told the Region that DRT would not be receiving funding through the ZETF program. So instead of ordering (34) electric, they're ordering 18 diesel to minimize service impacts (for planned sep '26 enhancements).

This leaves a small period of time to address the shortfall so something to keep an eye on when it's presented to council...it's unclear to me why we banked on/why it fell through as the report doesn't clarify in the background para's; probably related to my post on the previous page re: Canadian Public Transit Fund (sorry can't seem to insert quotes on edited message).