Recent content by Wm Perkins Bull

Expect continuous incremental improvement

I think that it is both a trial thing, and also Brampton Transit has a shortage of buses. I would expect next year to bump it up to hourly service by adding one bus, as BT vehicle access improves, and the route demonstrates it doesn't need to be subsidized as much. I have heard from people...

January, February, and March ridership data is out. How much ridership? All of the ridership. Even February at 3.4 million. https://www.brampton.ca/EN/residents/transit/About-Us/Pages/Ridership.aspx

The Heritage Block RFP notes that the City intends for the Riverwalk flood control project to be done in Late 2028.

Staff within BT have zero confidence of the LRT extension to downtown being completed before 2030, there is simply too much work to be done.

Brampton Transit is short literally hundreds of thousands of hours relative to ridership, they also need far more buses than they have. They have probably run the numbers and deemed it not worth it.

New CBC article on Brampton Transit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/brampton-transit-budget-1.7158957

McCannell Avenue is provisioned to be as wide as Dufferin Road 109, suggesting an extension via that

A significant portion of MiWay ridership is people coming from Brampton. There is a reason the MiWay routes running to Sheridan get packed, and also why Derry has such robust ridership. While this is likely to curb Brampton's absurd growth rate, we are unlikely to experience 20%+ ridership...

BT remains undefeated for its absurdly fast ridership growth.

If there is to be a merger of transit agencies involving MiWay, it makes the most sense to have Mississauga annexed by Brampton Transit. This makes sense based on the enormous population flows between Brampton and Mississauga on a daily basis, and how their transit systems run. 30% of Brampton's...

I meant if VIVA Orange is upgraded to an LRT in the distant future

With the Queen Street BRT annexing the Orange Line to VMC, VIVA Orange will run exclusively between Line 1 University and Line 1 Yonge, which is a strong candidate for being numbered as part of the TTC Rapid Transit System

I believe the youths say RETVRN. Mississauga used to be in the planning area of Metro Toronto

Staff used the industry standard model for justifying a road widening, even though staff professes to believe in traffic evaporation. Once it hits 20 minutes to get from Steeles to Downtown, it would be vastly faster to bypass downtown such as using Steeles to Kennedy to Vodden, or Kennedy to...