Who Rides 33 Forest Hill?

Cross-posted from Transit Toronto:

Who rides the 33 Forest Hill? About 750 individuals per day, actually. Though it is one of 62 “poor performing routes”, transit advocates like Steve Munro recommend raising fares rather than cutting these services, as this Globe and Mail article reports. From the article:

…The route’s 195,000 annual fares would be bus-less. While the 33 Forest Hill’s ridership — 750 fares a day — pales in comparison with the 501 Queen streetcar’s more than 40,000 daily fares, the bus remains a desired service for people in the area, no matter how few ride it.
“Would the world end if we cut the Forest Hill route? No,” TTC vice-chair Adam Giambrone says. “Depending on service levels, you can take a bus off, and that deals with overcrowding issues [elsewhere]. At the same time, you can’t reduce a bus route to less than one bus.”