Small things, continued yet again

Time for a little rant. I’ve noticed over the past few weeks that the electronic signs on DRT bus 8017 are, well, not quite right.
Some of you may recall my complaint last year that many Audley South buses were still displaying “Shoal Point”, the old name of the route. It’s still true that [...]

When is transit essential?

Regular DRT riders may remember that during the three week long DRT strike in 2006, no mention was made at either of the local or provincial level of declaring DRT an essential service.  In fact, the strike seemed to go by without making all that much of an impact on the GTA as a whole.
The [...]

Metrolinx White Papers

Note: I’ve removed the maps, as the Metrolinx board has decided to update these papers and re-release them in two weeks in order to include several more test cases.  Therefore, the information in this post should be considered a draft version.  I will do an updated new post when the new papers are available, presumably [...]

BRT, Revisited

I’ve been thinking a lot about transit improvements lately.  This is mostly because of things going on at the Metrolinx level: the Metronauts transit camp, the release of the Metrolinx White Papers in the next few weeks, reading the thoughts of other transit bloggers, and in general thinking about the state of things.
As readers will [...]

Did someone fail math?

You know, given the results of the TTC labour negotiation, I can’t help but wonder if there is a huge opportunity for DRT drivers and employees of other transit agencies in the GTA.  The TTC drivers have won a clause guaranteeing that they will be the highest paid in the GTA.  But what if DRT [...]

Bikes Galore

Bikes have been in the news in Durham Region transit circles of late, for several reasons:

DRT has received money to implement bike racks on its buses.  While I have not heard the word “all” used, the roughly $250,000 provided by Metrolinx certainly appears to be enough to equip the fleet.
Further, DRT has received further monies [...]

Metronauts

I spent Saturday participating in an event called Metronauts. This was a relatively free-form set of discussions on important transit issues put on by the team that did last year’s transit camp, and organized under the auspices of Metrolinx. The idea is to get a bunch of interested people together, collectively set an [...]

BRT Funding

The local Ajax News Advertiser paper ran a short story on Sunday indicating that the first $17 Million of the provincial BRT funding should be available within the next few weeks, allowing Durham Region to place an order for 26 hybrid buses for BRT service.  Unfortunately, this article does not appear to be available online.
It’s [...]

R22 Audley South Routing

I’m going to digress from some of the big things I’ve been talking about lately to talk about a small thing close to home.  Regular readers will be aware that my local route is R22 Audley South in Ajax.
At yesterday’s DRT executive meeting, an item dealt with a petition provided by a local resident on [...]