Viva5113 Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 On 2017. 7. 23. at 8:00 AM, Silly Tilley said: It seems like York Region may be out of the Metrolinx consortium for their next round of bus purchases and have chosen to tender on their own. Anyways... BID NUMBER: T-17-52 SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF CONVENTIONAL 12 METRE BUSES Tender calls for a total of 78 buses to be delivered over a 3 year period from 2018-2020. 35 in 2018, 24 in 2019, and 19 in 2020. The tender document can be downloaded at the link above. Well the results are in... The detailed information is posted in link that Silly Tilley posted. There is updated information dated yesterday. "On behalf of the Council of The Regional Municipality of York, I wish to advise that the bid received from New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, for Contract No. T-17-52 for SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF CONVENTIONAL 12 METRE BUSES has been accepted in the amount of $44,965,479.00, excluding HST. " 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourStop Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 yourstop.info new version A new version of with some fundamental changes and major enhancements has just been released. Some of the more noticeable changes are: - New look departure listing page with more space between departures. - Ability to select a destination and then see the arrival time at that destination. Departures not stopping at the destination are filtered out. - A facility to view later departures by clicking on a button at the end of the listings. Repeated clicking allows departures up to 24 hours ahead be retrieved and browsed. - Departures are now displayed beyond the end of the operator defined day. So if it 11pm, departures for later that night and early the following morning will be returned. - Departure times for departures occurring within an hour are now listed in minutes away. For departures more than 59 minutes away, the time is shown. The detailed departure information page still shows the scheduled and if available predicted times. - Automatic refresh and update of departure information now occurs. This happens every minute. There is no longer a need to use the refresh button to see the latest predictions. - The trip diagram uses different levels of opacity so a user can more easily pick out their stop and if specified their destination. - Symbols such as "L" and "V" which were previously used to indicate that live information is available have been removed. They have been replaced with a small changing circle which should be more intuitive for first time users. "C" ans "S" which were used to denote canceled trips and skipped stops have been replaced with a red line through the time. - In most cases, the route number or name is now shown on the main departure page. - The distinction between getting current and future departures has been made cleaner using a "Travel Now"/"Travel Later" button. - For transit data covering more than one mode of transport (e.g. bus and rail), the mode servicing the stop is now shown in the "Find" and "My Stops" pages. - Station support added. When operators represent a station as a single virtual stop, listings for the entire station can now be browsed in one go. This can include different modes of transport. - Trips with loops (the same stop been visited more than once in a single trip) are now handled correctly. - Added trips which do not have an associated schedule now show stops in the trip diagram. - Presentation of notices has been improved when they are provided by an operator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj.surf.lfs Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Proposed YRT 2019 Service Plan https://view.publitas.com/york-region-transit/2019-transit-initiatives-proposed/page/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yrt1000 Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Ah yes, the Cornell terminal. This time they say it’ll open in Spring 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris W Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 4 hours ago, dj.surf.lfs said: Proposed YRT 2019 Service Plan https://view.publitas.com/york-region-transit/2019-transit-initiatives-proposed/page/1 I can imagine cutting three of the North Division routes and replacing them with Dial a Ride routes will go over well. Seriously, cutting routes 51, 52 and 58 makes no sense. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo Aquarius Posted April 8, 2018 Report Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 3/22/2018 at 4:05 PM, Chris W said: I can imagine cutting three of the North Division routes and replacing them with Dial a Ride routes will go over well. Seriously, cutting routes 51, 52 and 58 makes no sense. Agreed, especially with the rapid residential growth in East Gwillimbury and Georgina. There should be a focus on providing more transit services to all the new residential areas; traffic is going to be horrendous in the area in the coming years and a concise transit plan in the area can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj.surf.lfs Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 YRT Service Change effective April 29 https://www.yrt.ca/en/schedules-and-maps/service-changes.aspx Most changes are just widening of frequencies by ~5 minutes (for reliability purposes, probably). Few things to note however: 16 16th Avenue - Saturday service decreased from every 25 to every 37 minutes, Sunday service decreased from every 31 to every 47 minutes 20 Jane - will NOT have its frequency boosted for the Wonderland season this year. Instead, 760 Vaughan Mills/Wonderland will run every 24 minutes, every day of the week. Routes serving York University will exit campus using Ian MacDonald / Northwest Gate to Pioneer Village Terminal, as opposed to Founders / Steeles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viva5113 Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 On 2018. 3. 22. at 3:48 PM, yrt1000 said: Ah yes, the Cornell terminal. This time they say it’ll open in Spring 2019 Here is tender related to it. CONSTRUCTION OF THE CORNELL BUS TERMINAL AT 467 RUSTLE WOODS AVENUE, IN THE CITY OF MARKHAM, ONTARIO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhamdevelopments Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 On 3/22/2018 at 3:48 PM, yrt1000 said: Ah yes, the Cornell terminal. This time they say it’ll open in Spring 2019 No, Q3 or Q4 2019, that's what the latest York Region Rapid Transit Corporation report says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris W Posted April 11, 2018 Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 18 hours ago, dj.surf.lfs said: YRT Service Change effective April 29 https://www.yrt.ca/en/schedules-and-maps/service-changes.aspx Most changes are just widening of frequencies by ~5 minutes (for reliability purposes, probably). Few things to note however: 16 16th Avenue - Saturday service decreased from every 25 to every 37 minutes, Sunday service decreased from every 31 to every 47 minutes 20 Jane - will NOT have its frequency boosted for the Wonderland season this year. Instead, 760 Vaughan Mills/Wonderland will run every 24 minutes, every day of the week. Routes serving York University will exit campus using Ian MacDonald / Northwest Gate to Pioneer Village Terminal, as opposed to Founders / Steeles. I guess they'll be running the artics on the 760 along with the 20. Still, this sounds like more regression from YRT's planning department (if they dare call themselves that). But you know, let's spend more money that should go towards service improvements on useless advertising. Note to York Region. Ditch the for-profit companies and run it publicly like everybody else. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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smallspy Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 1 hour ago, markhamdevelopments said: The 760 still operates on weekends. Of course it does. Weekends are one part of "every day of the week", are they not? 1 hour ago, markhamdevelopments said: Also I don't think the 16th Avenue service level is needed to be changed. You may not think so, but you're not the one trying to balance the budget. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bus_Medic Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 Where the hell did smallspy say that? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris W Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 3 hours ago, Bus_Medic said: Where the hell did smallspy say that? My head hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallspy Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 On 4/12/2018 at 2:53 PM, markhamdevelopments said: So you want the YRT to cut services at an alarming rate and create congestion on road? "Create congestion" - oh please, we're talking about Markham here. What the current modal split for transit, 2%? Let's get out of the hyperbole and start talking about real life here. YRT has a fixed budget that they can spend every year. This means that they may not have the ability to run mostly-empty buses on some routes just for fun. They'll have to make hard choices about where that service is operated - and if it means that they have to cut one bus from one route where the ridership is not great to add it to another where ridership is increasing rapidly, then that's the choice that they will make. It's not a zero-sum game. Sometimes you have to rob from Peter to pay Paul. Hopefully in the long run service will increase on all routes, but considering how "hard" YRT seems to be battling for increasing ridership, for improving the transit modal share, and how much the Region seems to be "supporting" their funding requests, I for one won't be holding my breath. I would have hoped that groups and boards like this would have had a better handle on that reality than the general public - after all, most of us are regularly around public transit, either by photographing and recording it, using it, operating it or maintaining that - but it's frankly shocking that after all these years of people like myself trying to point out these things that are frankly obvious that it still has not managed to sink in. Dan 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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smallspy Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 1 minute ago, markhamdevelopments said: Yeah right, they weren't very successful at the first place. At least the rapidways help with ridership. If that's what helps you sleep at night.... Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Waiting for 30 Minutes Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 On 4/16/2018 at 6:36 PM, markhamdevelopments said: Yeah right, they weren't very successful at the first place. At least the rapidways help with ridership. Back up what you're saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OC Transpo/STO Fan Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 On 2018-04-16 at 6:36 PM, markhamdevelopments said: Yeah right, they weren't very successful at the first place. At least the rapidways help with ridership. Could you explain why you think that? We need evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris W Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 On 4/16/2018 at 6:36 PM, markhamdevelopments said: Yeah right, they weren't very successful at the first place. At least the rapidways help with ridership. Show your work and don't forget to carry the one. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transit geek Posted April 26, 2018 Report Share Posted April 26, 2018 23 hours ago, OC Transpo/STO Fan said: On 2018-04-16 at 6:36 PM, markhamdevelopments said: At least the rapidways help with ridership. Could you explain why you think that? We need evidence. I find it very interesting that the ITDP never gave Viva a score on its BRT Standard. The list on Wikipedia has only one Canadian entry (the OC Transpo Transitway), which is out of date due to its replacement with LRT. But it's not that the standard is outdated or no longer monitored - look at this case of a gold-rated BRT line in US, which opened late last year. Besides the all-electric buses and left-side boarding, what else does it have that cannot be comparable to Viva's rapidways? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsbuspage Posted April 26, 2018 Report Share Posted April 26, 2018 17 hours ago, Transit geek said: The list on Wikipedia has only one Canadian entry (the OC Transpo Transitway), which is out of date due to its replacement with LRT. The Transitway isn't out of date: it still exists west of Tunney's Pasture and between Hurdman and South Keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion 1200 Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 Do any of you guys collect the electronic Route Navigators from yrt.ca? My 20 Jane one from December 17th is corrupted and I'm hoping that one of you may have it and would be able to post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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