miWay Transit

[doady]

Dundas is a pale shadow of its former self. Now 15 minute Local service all day instead of 8-10 minutes. No more branch to bypass UTM. Riders of 45 Winston Churchill looking for an East-West Route to transfer to now forced into UTM, because 26 Burnhamthorpe does NOT GO WEST OF SOUTH COMMON. Express service to Uptown Core still not restored despite shortening of route at Kipling and continued development along the Dundas Street in Oakville. With the loss of the 1C, the residents along The Collegeway are forced to use the useless 48 Erin Mills instead. Sad!

 

[Toffy]

Dundas is a pale shadow of its former self. Now 15 minute Local service all day instead of 8-10 minutes. No more branch to bypass UTM. Riders of 45 Winston Churchill looking for an East-West Route to transfer to now forced into UTM, because 26 Burnhamthorpe does NOT GO WEST OF SOUTH COMMON. Express service to Uptown Core still not restored despite shortening of route at Kipling and continued development along the Dundas Street in Oakville. With the loss of the 1C, the residents along The Collegeway are forced to use the useless 48 Erin Mills instead. Sad!

Although I do agree that the Dundas service continues to pale in comparison to its pre-pandemic self, this service change nonetheless is a significant improvement from where it currently stands. While those coming from west of UTM along Dundas are now forced to ride through UTM, it would be unwise to overlook the fact that service will be far more frequent than even pre-pandemic service and those connecting along Dundas from the 13, 29, 45 and 110 will have drastically reduced connection times at all times.

Ultimately transit is about trade-offs and for the time being I think it is a decent trade off. I would also point out that riders perceive wait times far more negatively than on-vehicle time. It's well understood that wait time has a 1:1.6 to 1:2 time perception ratio (1 minute of wait time feels like 1.6 to 2 minutes) as compared to the 1:1 time perception ratio for on-vehicle time.

Thankfully there is plans to extend the 26 west past South Common which I think is far overdue.