Comment 65180

By Fred Street (anonymous) | Posted June 25, 2011 at 14:32:49 in reply to Comment 65077

"I don't even need the tripling of service. Give me 1 bus that does a complete loop from Waterdown to Downtown 7 days a week"

18 Waterdown currently involves two buses currently driving a 39-minute loop. Extending the route into downtown Hamilton without involving a transfer would add another 39 minutes to the loop and require twice the buses to maintain the existing level of service. If there's pent-up demand from transit users, the case can certainly be made (as McMaster has done with the sardine cans of 5C/10/52, reliably ripe with undergrad BO eight months a year). If most users get off at Aldershot, though, you're running near-empty buses into Hamilton constantly, which is obviously inefficient from financial and environmental standpoints. I'd guess that 7-day service to Aldershot would be more likely.

Burlington Transit is an interesting case – abysmal adoption rate (annual ridership around 1.9 million for the last 20 years) and correspondingly 40% of the routes down't run on Sundays... but Burlingtonians still back the service with little complaint, even though it's reasonable to assume that a large chunk of the ridership is non-residents.

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