Epi
Active Member
VIVA Blue is not a secondary bus service on Yonge, it the route 99 is the one that's the expendable secondary service, operating at half the frequency of VIVA Blue at all times. What is so hard to understand about this really? You are not using your head right.
And the Yonge bus is a secondary service to the subway.... and the bus runs after the subway stops running.
So what if VIVA stops running earlier than the subway? The demand at night is less and doesn't justify it.
And I think if you must get anal about it, the demand at night might not necessarily justify the current subway north of Eglinton either, as the night buses during construction have clearly shown. But we still run the subway anyway, because it's there and most people are going to major streets anyway. VIVA meanwhile isn't 'there' because it's a bus, not a physical piece of infrastructure which costs much less to run once it's built. Same thing will happen if the subway is extended north on Yonge... it will run until closing, even if there may not be enough riders, just because it's there and it's pretty cheap to run because it's running from downtown anyway.