February 16, 2009
Posted by Ted Avery
One UPASS improvement detail emerges
Students at UOIT and Durham College were told that one reason for the UPASS price increase was to fund increased service to the school. I was skeptical as to whether these were improvements we would actually see or if it was just an excuse to get students to cough up more cash. But a recent news article about Durham Region Transit’s plans for 2009 has a quote revealing one of these details.
This includes more trips on the wildly popular routes serving the UOIT and Durham College campus, where buses heading to the campus are often jam-packed during the morning rush. Service along Simcoe Street during peak times will be every 7.5 minutes, up from the current 15, making it the most frequent bus in Durham.
There you go. As a frequent passenger on the Simcoe bus, I can definitely vouch for this need in increased service. The bus is jam-packed not only in the rush hours, but all throughout the day.
It’s a great step in the right direction and we will hopefully see some more changes soon. Personally I’d like to see some entirely new routes, like a one way ride to the Oshawa Centre from the school as currently there is no way to get to the mall unless you transfer buses downtown.
3 Comments
February 17, 2009
That was definitely needed. That is one thing I could not stand about busing. Every other university has buses every 5 to 10 minutes. I'm happy for all bus users that it wont be so ridiculous anymore. This also means you can sleep in more now
February 17, 2009
That was definitely needed. That is one thing I could not stand about busing. Every other university has buses every 5 to 10 minutes. I'm happy for all bus users that it wont be so ridiculous anymore. This also means you can sleep in more now
February 17, 2009
That was definitely needed. That is one thing I could not stand about busing. Every other university has buses every 5 to 10 minutes. I'm happy for all bus users that it wont be so ridiculous anymore. This also means you can sleep in more now
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