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Makes sense. There is little sense in having a fixed route loop to the ON bus station when no bus is there - which is only roughly seven times per day for all routes (and some have other NB stops).
So will this "on demand" bus meet the ONR bus at times outside of their operating hours? So like if the ONR bus arrives in North Bay at 5am?
Not according to the times in ShonTron's post which is from the North Bay Transit website. They don't operate an overnight service. I'm not sure many municipalities other than the very large ones, do.
Why couldn't they just add the loop when the bus is in there? If you knew that a bus will drop you off for the other bus and vice versa, it would be better than calling it in.
Take it up with North Bay Transit.
Why should a traveler need to do that?
Good to see that they have money to invest in new equipment. I hope it will be put to good use.
My read is that they don't need this for the services they currently offer. This could be one step to restoration of the Northlander.
Perhaps but I wouldn't read too much into it. They have their entire network evaluated - I think annually - by either CN or CP evaluation crews. This will obviously help them assess the trackage as (if) they want to make speed improvements to the future passenger corridor rather than having to call in somebody else to assess just a portion of their network between 'regular readings'. Keep in mind a big chuck of the proposed passenger route will be on CN property south of North Bay.
I look at it this way: If they have been contracting it out to CN and CP, why did they suddenly decide that they no longer want them to do it? They just did it this summer too! They must feel they need to do them more often, or they need to do them often enough that they need to own the equipment.
