Transpo Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 GRT has the following document linked accessible through their home page: http://grt.ca/web/transit.nsf/$All/5D...doc?openelement The document reads: Due to safety concerns raised by our operators, Route 65 Fisher Mills and Route 71 Melran will continue to operate on a detour routing until further notice. Does anyone know what exactly these safety concerns are? This is dated 2008. Is this detour still in place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Number12 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well it seems that those "detour routings" are now permanant routings. To my knowledge, these routes have been on "detour" since they first began operating when Hespeler routes were restructured back in 2002 or 2003 !! Those routes have been on "detour" since about January 2008, that's all. No great panic to put them back since there is a pending re-design of Hespeler routes anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transpo Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Those routes have been on "detour" since about January 2008, that's all. No great panic to put them back since there is a pending re-design of Hespeler routes anyway. What are the safety concerns raised by the operators? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number12 Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 What are the safety concerns raised by the operators? Queen between Adam & Tannery was way too narrow with parking on both sides. In 3 years there were FORTY incidents involving GRT buses, mostly mirror hits, on this one block of road. Naturally GRT management didn't see a problem and it took an OHSA work refusal to get the buses out of there. Now that parking has been removed from one side it would not be a problem, but the 3 year old work refusal is outstanding and has to be dealt with before any GRT buses can use that road. That's just the way the law works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transpo Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Queen between Adam & Tannery was way too narrow with parking on both sides. In 3 years there were FORTY incidents involving GRT buses, mostly mirror hits, on this one block of road. Naturally GRT management didn't see a problem and it took an OHSA work refusal to get the buses out of there.Now that parking has been removed from one side it would not be a problem, but the 3 year old work refusal is outstanding and has to be dealt with before any GRT buses can use that road. That's just the way the law works. Not really a detour then, eh? More like a route re-design. Silly it appears as a detour on their site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason L Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Not really a detour then, eh? More like a route re-design. Silly it appears as a detour on their site. um... is it just me or does this map look a bit weird? http://www.grt.ca/en/routesSchedules/resou...%20Adjusted.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivablue5215 Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 um... is it just me or does this map look a bit weird? http://www.grt.ca/en/routesSchedules/resou...%20Adjusted.pdf Why is it upside down...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason L Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Why is it upside down...? Maybe you should tweet them and ask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transpo Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Ha.... I don't know why but GRT seems to take the most simple tasks and screw them up somehow. Who works there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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