Brampton Transit/Zum

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A vague overview of the March Improvements have been published. The majority “adjustments” again, are service cuts. Interesting to see the BT OnDemand service leave already.

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After looking through some of the schedules there are some pretty deep cuts. Not as bad as January, but still sad to see. Queen West just keeps getting worse and worse, Kennedy is just sad to see, and the Steeles cut is just shocking.

1/1A Queen
Peak service reduced from 11 minutes (combined) to 12-12.5 minutes
Midday service reduced from 35 minutes to 36 minutes
A few westbound late evening trips terminating and GO out of service at Mount Pleasant GO will now head back east to Downtown Terminal before heading back to the garage.

Trips adjusted to align with GO Train times at both Mt. Pleasant and Brampton Innovation District

Saturday:
Midday service reduced from 12/15 minutes to 20 minutes

2 Main
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Brampton Inno GO

3/3A McLaughlin
Peak and Midday service reduced from 12/14 minutes to 15/16 minutes

5/5A Bovaird
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Mt. Pleasant GO

7/7A Kennedy
Route 7A will now run during the midday period fully.
Night service on Route 7 increased from 30 to 25 minutes

Saturday
Midday service reduced from every 12.5 minutes to every 16 minutes

11/11A Steeles
Peak service reduced from every 8/10 minutes to every 12/15 minutes

12 Grenoble/16 Southgate (interlined service)
Schedules adjusted to align Route 16 with GO Train times at Bramalea GO

13 Avondale
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Bramalea GO

14 Torbram
AM service reduced from 8 minutes to 10 minutes

17 Howden
Schedules adjusted

26 Mount Pleasant
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Mt. Pleasant GO

27 Robert Parkinson
Runtime added, no loss in number of trips per day, but individual trip times have changed. Frequency is still roughly every 35 minutes AM, and 30 minutes PM. New schedule does not align with GO train times

28/28A Wanless
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Mt. Pleasant GO

29A Williams
AM peak service reduced from 14 minutes to 16 minutes
PM peak service reduced from 15 minutes to 18 minutes

104 Chinguacousy Express
Frequency maintained, trip times adjusted

215 School
Additional AM runtime added

502 Züm Main
Peak reduced from 7 minutes to 8 minutes
Midday service reduced from 10-12 minutes to 15 minutes
Night service reduced from 12 minutes to 15 minutes

505 Züm Bovaird
AM Peak service reduced from 16 minutes to 18 minutes
Midday service reduced from 20 minutes to 24 minutes
PM peak service reduced from 17 minutes to 18 minutes.


Edit: didn’t add cuts to 1 on weekdays

This now means that route 5/5A Bovaird has more frequent service in all weekday periods than Route 505 which is honestly sad to see.

 

[Toffy]

For those keeping track here is an accounting if you will of transit service. Tables below show routes which will experience a change in the amount of service/trips operated. Grand total counts are for the entire network. Long story short these changes are not simply the loss of frequency as a result of increased run times. Characterizing these as schedule adjustments to improve service reliability is disingenuous. Service reliability is more than a bus simply arriving on time, a service that is less frequent is inherently less reliable. Their neighbhour to the south is just as guilty of it too.

WEEKDAYS - Route	January	February	Difference - #	Difference - %
1	170	163	-7	-4.12%
3	149	142	-7	-4.70%
7	262	258	-4	-1.53%
11	217	169	-48	-22.12%
14	220	207	-13	-5.91%
29	130	120	-10	-7.69%
30	197	199	2	1.02%
50	208	210	2	0.96%
301	1	10	9	900.00%
502	252	220	-32	-12.70%
505	132	124	-8	-6.06%
Grand Total	5509	5393	-116	-2.11%

SATURDAYS - Route	January	February	Difference - #	Difference - %
1	138	113	-25	-18.12%
7	153	134	-19	-12.42%
Grand Total	3205	3161	-44	-1.37%

SUNDAYS - Route	January	February	Difference - #	Difference - %
30	98	100	2	2.04%
Grand Total	2486	2488	2	0.08%

Vehicular Resources	January	February	Difference - #	Difference - %
Weekday - HOURS	4874.23	4729.72	-144.51	-2.96%
Weekday - BLOCKS	508	487	-21	-4.13%
Saturday - HOURS	2712.53	2668.53	-44	-1.62%
Saturday - BLOCKS	199	195	-4	-2.01%
Sunday - HOURS	2123.15	2120.18	-2.97	-0.14%
Sunday - BLOCKS	160	162	2	1.25%

 

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After looking through some of the schedules there are some pretty deep cuts. Not as bad as January, but still sad to see. Queen West just keeps getting worse and worse, Kennedy is just sad to see, and the Steeles cut is just shocking.

1/1A Queen
A few westbound late evening trips terminating and GO out of service at Mount Pleasant GO will now head back east to Downtown Terminal before heading back to the garage.

Trips adjusted to align with GO Train times at both Mt. Pleasant and Brampton Innovation District

Saturday:
Midday service reduced from 12/15 minutes to 20 minutes

2 Main
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Brampton Inno GO

3/3A McLaughlin
Peak and Midday service reduced from 12/14 minutes to 15/16 minutes

5/5A Bovaird
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Mt. Pleasant GO

7/7A Kennedy
Route 7A will now run during the midday period fully.
Night service on Route 7 increased from 30 to 25 minutes

Saturday
Midday service reduced from every 12.5 minutes to every 16 minutes

11/11A Steeles
Peak service reduced from every 8/10 minutes to every 12/15 minutes

12 Grenoble/16 Southgate (interlined service)
Schedules adjusted to align Route 16 with GO Train times at Bramalea GO

13 Avondale
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Bramalea GO

14 Torbram
AM service reduced from 8 minutes to 10 minutes

17 Howden
Schedules adjusted

26 Mount Pleasant
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Mt. Pleasant GO

27 Robert Parkinson
Runtime added, no loss in number of trips per day, but individual trip times have changed. Frequency is still roughly every 35 minutes AM, and 30 minutes PM. New schedule does not align with GO train times

28/28A Wanless
Schedules adjusted to align with GO Train times at Mt. Pleasant GO

29A Williams
AM peak service reduced from 14 minutes to 16 minutes
PM peak service reduced from 15 minutes to 18 minutes

104 Chinguacousy Express
Frequency maintained, trip times adjusted

215 School
Additional AM runtime added

502 Züm Main
Peak reduced from 7 minutes to 8 minutes
Midday service reduced from 10-12 minutes to 15 minutes
Night service reduced from 12 minutes to 15 minutes

505 Züm Bovaird
AM Peak service reduced from 16 minutes to 18 minutes
Midday service reduced from 20 minutes to 24 minutes
PM peak service reduced from 17 minutes to 18 minutes.


This now means that route 5/5A Bovaird has more frequent service in all weekday periods than Route 505 which is honestly sad to see.

Must be those cuts to international students intake thats causing those ridership decline!

 

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Must be those cuts to international students intake thats causing those ridership decline!

I mean yes, but at the same time a lot of these cuts are starting to really feel and look really bad. 25 minute and 30 minute midday service on the respective Züm Bovaird and Queen West services are quite a jump, and in the case of Bovaird just makes a service that was already operated horribly even more unuseable.