BRT Update

Here’s a small BRT update; the GTTA has added a set of “municipal presentations” to their agenda documents for Friday’s meetings.  These include the following information for the Hwy 2 BRT:
5 Year Benefits:

Improved transit travel times on Highway 2
Reduced congestion on the corridor by increasing overall people-moving capacity
Improvement to inter-regional transit connections
Real-time information [...]

Updated Schedules

DRT has updated their main schedule and map pages to include the December 3 route changes in Whitby. One note: the Bloor Victoria route looks somewhat different than I thought it would, as it runs south on Brock from Whitby GO to Water street, north on South Bloor to Victoria, along Victoria to Thickson, [...]

Durham Quick Wins

The agenda for the GTTA’s Friday meeting is now available online, and as expected, it contained details of the GTTA’s second round (or “tranche”, to use their terminology) of Quick Win projects. These items are items identified for relatively early, quick implementation. If these are approved, they will be submitted for funding through [...]

Suggestions for 2008

We’re in the latter part of 2007 now and most of DRT’s announced 2007 service improvements will be in place. The one remainder is the replacement of the Whitby industrial area “dial a ride” and shuttle bus services with a fixed route service; that will occur on December 3 and I will have a [...]

Route changes in Whitby

DRT has announced some route changes in Whitby effective December 3.  The existing Dial-a-Ride and GO Shuttle services are being replaced in favour of fixed-route service.

Weekday Peak Service to Port Whitby and Thickson and Wentworth Industrial Area with the new Route 922 Bloor/Victoria replaces Dial-a-Ride service to South Whitby

Note that this is a small routing [...]

Hwy 2 BRT

This should be an interesting week for anyone waiting for news on the Highway 2 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) implementation. Durham Region has proposed to the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (GTTA) that the Hwy 2 BRT be considered for Quick Win status. From information contained in DRT status reports that are made [...]

Sheppard East LRT and DRT

Things are slowly starting to happen on the MoveOntario 2020 front. A TTC report indicates a preliminary schedule for the first Transit City lines to go into construction. Specifically, the Sheppard East line is proposed will be one of the first out of the gate with construction starting in 2009, with Etobicoke-Finch West [...]