By Staff
October 24th, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
The transit people want to improve bus arrival times and transit rider connections, they are going to make changes to bus routes that will be introduced Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018.
The schedule updates will affect routes 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 21, 25, 80, 81, and 83. Transit riders are encouraged to check updated schedules before they ride at www.tripplanner.burlington.ca
Summary of transit schedule changes beginning Nov. 4, 2018:
Routes Change
5 and 80 Routes 5 and 80 will operate as separate buses and riders will be required to transfer between Routes 5 and 80 at the Burlington GO station at 2101 Fairview St.
This change will help ensure any delays that may occur on one of these routes will not have an impact on the other route.
6 and 11 Routes 6 and 11 will operate as separate buses and riders will be required to transfer between Routes 6 and 11 at the GO 407 Carpool lot on Dundas Street, west of Walkers Line.
This change will help ensure any delays that may occur on one of these routes will not have an impact on the other route.
12 Route 12 will operate on a 30-minute schedule all day.
11, 21, 25, 81 and 83 The schedules for Routes 11, 21, 25, 81 and 83 will shift by five minutes to improve transit rider connections at GO stations.
Updates to Burlington Transit schedules will result in more frequent bus service along Brant Street as riders will be able to take Routes 3 or 5 between downtown and the Burlington GO station.
Sue Connor, Director of Burlington Transit with Jim Young an advocate for free transit for seniors one day a week.
Sue Connor, Director, Burlington Transit imported from Brampton is betting that the “schedule changes represent another opportunity to improve Burlington’s Transit service. The updated schedules will help to ensure buses are arriving on time so that riders can make their transit connections to travel through our city.”
Connor is continually reported to have done a great job in Brampton. Let’s hope that can be achieved here as well.
There is in Burlington, a citizens group that approached the transit people with an idea: How about aving a bus that runs up and down Brant – with no particular schedule. It would be a hop on – hope off. And free.
The transit people said they didn’t have a bus that could be dedicated to an experiment like that. One wonders how people would take to the idea of being able to stand at a bus stop – get on the bus and go anywhere you wanted on Brant Street.
Burlingtonians are married to their cars. The only way they are going to evolve to transit users is if they are given a chance to try the service and find that it is convenient.
This made me laugh out loud. The bus nearest to me will shift its schedule by five minutes in order to better meet the GO trains. Five minutes?!? What about when it’s 20 minutes late, as it usually is?
And this: “The only way they are going to evolve to transit users is if they are given a chance to try the service and find that it is convenient.”
No, the only way that drivers will evolve to transit users is when our transit system is reliable enough and convenient enough that they hear it’s worth trying. Because it’s so terrible, it has to be far beyond adequate in order to re-gain the riders that it’s lost (like me!)
I’ve been burned too many times before. Until I know for sure that Burlington Transit will get me where I need to go, I’ll continue to drive, call a cab or take an Uber.
When I read, “more frequent bus service along Brant Street” I wondered how that could happen without buying another bus. I knew there were no new buses available because it wasn’t in the budget for this year or next.
After looking at the schedule, I see a bus that finished earlier is now making an extra 2 loops late at night. The new schedule will now have the bus running at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. instead of going back to the barn. That’s more frequent service.
The City of Burlington has misinterpreted the phrase, “Keeping seniors in their homes.”