Visions for the GTTA

Late-October service changes

Here are the October service changes for some of the GTA systems:

TTC - October 15

• 23 Dawes, 15 Evans, 504 King, 102 Markham Rd & 73 Royal York all have increased service.
• 509 Harbourfront, 86 Scarborough, 85 Sheppard East & 165 Weston Rd North all have seasonal service reductions, due to fewer people going to Harbourfront, Metro Toronto Zoo and Canada's Wonderland, respectively.
• 192 Airport Rocket, 191 Highway 27 Rocket, 79 Scarlett Rd & 84 Sheppard West all have general schedule changes.
  
• 33 Forest Hill has been rerouted at the north end of the route for a trial period - again. Service is now 30 minutes instead of 20. Expect this to not be the last change this route sees.

Mississauga Transit - October 23

• Accessible service comes to 1 Dundas, 1C Dundas-Collegeway, 8 Cawthra-Indian road & 68 Windsor Hill
• 5B Dixie-Meyerside, 24 University, 34 Credit Valley & 42 Derry all have either improved frequency, more coverage or both.
• 38A Creditview-Argentia & 6 Credit Woodlands-Westdale both ahve new Sunday service, though 38A Sunday will not serve the Meadowpine Industrial area.

Brampton Transit - October 30

• Schedule adjustments come on 4 Chinguacousy (Saturday), 12 Grenoble (all days), 23 Sandalwood (all days), 53 Kingknoll (weekday) & 77 Finch Subway (weekday and Saturday)

York Region Transit - October 29

• 1 Highway 7 has its last two eastbound trips using highway 7 all the way to Markham-Stouffville Hospital.
• 4 Major Mackenzie stops serving Canada's Wonderland, and has changes to the first westbound trip.
• 9 Stouffville has more coverage in Stouffville, and changes to an afternoon rush trip.
• 20 Jane-Concord stops serving Canada's Wonderland, but like the 4, will return next year.
• 33 Wellington has changes to a morning rush trip to improve connections.
• 77 Highway 7-Centre, covered in the Brampton Transit section, has schedule changes in the afternoon rush and on Saturday.
• 91/91A Bayview South has changes to morning rush trips to improve connections.
• 300 Business Express will no longer serve Motorola, as VIVA does the job nicely. It's cut back to IBM with minor adjustments.
• 522 Markham Community Bus makes its debut, replacing Mobility Plus service in the area.
• 445 St Robert School Special has its morning 7:20 trip absorbed into the 82 schedule.
  

Labels: brampton transit, mississauga transit, service changes, ttc, york region transit

posted by Andrae Griffith @ 6:35 p.m.