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  1. Here's a few others that you missed: It will be further extended to Sage Creek once funded. Route 883: Grace Hospital to Saskatchewan Loop, via Sturgeon Road and Murray Park. Route 885: Identical to the pre-2020 all-day 98. Trips to Unicity will require a transfer to 70 at Roblin & either Dale or William Clement, or to BLUE or 22 at Moray & Portage or the Grace. Route 888: Replaces Route 133 from the previous draft. Improves service in the Norwood area and operates along St-Joseph in both directions (instead of NB Taché and SB St-Joseph). The 110 is back. On the previous draft, St. B and Norwood would be served exclusively by the various fixed routes. The Riverview and Wildwood zones would be combined and take in the Lord Roberts area. The Murray Park/Strauss Drive and Westwood zones would be combined and take in the Booth and Silver Heights areas. I stand to personally benefit from this.
  2. Not to mention that the TMP 22 and 48 significantly overlap with the routes that currently bear those numbers. Though the overlap between the current and TMP versions of the 57 (and 43) are more limited. That, or go all the way to Unicity, swallowing up the 22. Its sister route, the D15, will go there.
  3. Bumping this thread because WT unveiled a revised short-term TMP today. It appears to be mostly similar to the proposal from three years ago, but some changes were made. The biggest was the replacement of the non-BLUE rapid routes with "frequent express routes," as well as to route numbering in general (with frequent/frequent express and direct routes getting numbers prefixed with "F," "FX" or "D" instead of letters). Some other routes were changed to greater resemble existing routes. The map can be found here.
  4. 947 was on the 21-28 (21/22) this afternoon. I didn’t get a photo, but I rode it from near my house to Polo, and it actually wasn’t bad. Pickups and dropoffs were made at the right places that everyone was able to get a seat.
  5. Before COVID (when you would've last ridden it), the 11 had 10 buses that ran between Portage West and North Kildonan, and four "Shoppers' Special" short-turns that ran between Polo and the Concert Hall. Now, it's nine and three, respectively. Whenever I'm out on Sundays, there's no 21, so I have to ride the 11 the other way (from what I'm guessing you do). While the Shoppers' Specials help somewhat with the overcrowding, after around 3:00, the full-length ones stay packed past Polo. The St. Charles ones seem to be the worst for that, probably because it's the only bus between downtown and Unicity on Sundays and only comes every 48 minutes. Running the 21 on Sundays may not solve the overcrowding issue entirely, but it would certainly help.
  6. They still do on weekdays and Saturdays (including at night) - it’s only on Sundays where they operate like that. It’s been like that since the Winter 2022 change, I don’t know why.
  7. And yet its sister route, the 690, is. Wonder if they'll use it to serve that corner of Whyte Ridge that'll lose the 649 and 650 once they're extended to Whyte Ridge. Whyte Ridge had all-day service to downtown via the Transitway before Phase 2 too, but even at rush hour, the 94 only ran once in a blue moon, and the weekend short-turn buses in fact did not connect with the 160 and 162.
  8. The way it’s set up on Sundays, three buses operate between Glenway and St. Charles, three between Rouge and North Kildonan and three between Lumsden and North Kildonan. They don’t switch branches. So as a consequence, probably the one branch that could handle artics on the North Kildonan end can’t on the Assiniboia end (because of Unicity Terminal). I would imagine that if the Glenway ones did the Crestview, or maybe even Westwood, branch, it would be able to handle artics.
  9. Grand Forks, ND, changed its route network a number of years ago, so the route list on this page is out of date. The current routes are as follows: Route 1: Metro Transit Center to Salvation Army, Stanford Center, N. 39th St. and YMCA Route 2: Metro Transit Center to Hugo’s (13th Ave N), Valley Middle School and St. Anne’s Guest Home Route 3: Metro Transit Center to The Link, Altru Hospital (Columbia Rd), Red River High and Grand Cities Mall Route 4: Metro Transit Center to Cabela's, Northland College, Hugo's (East Grand Forks) and Sunshine Terrace Route 5: Metro Transit Center to Salvation Army, Walmart (Gateway Dr), Memorial Union and YMCA Route 6: has a longer residential routing through East Grand Forks, but serves the same destinations as the 4 Route 7: Metro Transit Center to Columbia Mall, Target, Walmart (32nd Ave S), Hugo’s (32nd Ave S) and Grand Cities Mall Route 8: Altru Hospital (Columbia Rd) to Memorial Union via US Post Office (28th Ave S.), Columbia Mall, Target, and Alerus Center Route 9: Hamline & University to Altru Hospital (Columbia Rd) to Hamline & University via Alerus Center, Target, Columbia Mall and Amberwood Apartments Route 10: Metro Transit Center to The Link, Altru South, South Middle School, Columbia Mall, Walmart (32nd Ave S), Hugo’s (32nd Ave S) and Grand Cities Mall Route 12: Evergreen Estates to Hugo’s (East Grand Forks), Campbell Library and Riverside School Route 13 (Night Route): Metro Transit Center to N. 43rd St, Memorial Union, Altru Hospital (Columbia Rd), Columbia Mall, Walmart (32nd Ave S) Hugo’s (32nd Ave S) and Grand Cities Mall In addition, the link to the maps and schedules is dead, a current one can be found here.
  10. As was noted above, the 47 not going down Graham - to the annoyance of East End residents, I’m sure - funnels passengers headed to destinations on Graham onto the 60 (on Pembina) or BLUE (on the Transitway). The result, from my (albeit more limited) experience, tends to be the 60s running packed and the 47s running empty, even heading away from the U of M at the PM rush. The contrast is stark on weekends, where I’ve been 60s that would likely be standing-room-only without artics (it doesn’t help that that route has serious schedule-adherence issues on weekends, and especially on Saturdays) and 47s with single-digit passenger counts.
  11. I can’t find how many units the electric contract is for (it could be in one of the documents that you need to sign in to see), but the diesel contract is for five 40-footers and three artics.
  12. Don’t know how long ago this happened, since I only checked yesterday, but Saskatoon recently awarded a contract for electric buses to Nova. I can’t say I’m surprised by that result, but what does surprise me is that in addition to NFI, a new player, Ebusco Canada (which I found is a subsidiary of a Dutch company) bid on the contract while BYD and Proterra did not. Another tender, this one for diesels, closed four months ago, but hasn’t been awarded. I think it would be a reasonable to guess that that one, too, will go to Nova.
  13. Keeping in mind as well that only one of the old 400s got its sign replaced with LEDs, even though the flip-dot signs on those and (especially) the old D30LFs were also near-illegible at times.
  14. Many, if not all, of them remain active. These days, they’re used primarily to shuttle St. John’s-Ravenscourt students to and from school.
  15. It’s official: “Full” service will resume at the fall change. I use the quote marks because I interpret their use of the term “2020 budgeted levels” to mean all those route cuts (no all-day 98, no evenings and weekends on the 85 or 93, etc.) are here to stay.
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