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In 2005, prior to the TTC unveiling the Transit City Light Rail Plan, there was a document and presentation called “Building a Transit City”<\/a>, related to the 2003 ridership growth strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the TTC unveiled its “Transit City Bus Plan”, an interesting and detailed document that would see 21 bus routes outside the Transit City LRT Plan be provided with all-day 10-minute service and new or improved express buses on 15 bus routes, including the second-stage Transit City LRT routes: Don Mills, Jane, and Morningside (Scarborough-Malvern). However, the new or improved express bus routes are not planned to be fully rolled out until 2014 (though some routes will see improvements starting in 2011) .<\/p>\n

Even so, the route improvements and more express buses are important as the alternative would be to cut back on the bus fleet once busy bus routes like 32 Eglinton West, 34 Eglinton East, 36 Finch West are replaced by LRT and the York subway extension is completed.<\/p>\n

These Transit City bus routes for the most part fill the large gaps between proposed LRT routes and represent most of the busiest routes in the surface network. The inclusion of the 94 Wellesley is a bit curious, given its proximity to the Bloor-Yonge Subway.<\/p>\n

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The document also states that starting in the fall of 2011, the TTC would start implementing 20 minute or better service across the network. In 2008, when the TTC rolled out all-day service on nearly all of its regular routes, each was to run every 20, instead of every 30 minutes. At least this initiative has not been shelved, though sadly delayed.<\/p>\n

Further down the report, the TTC identified some additional bus priority measures, including bus queue-jump lanes, bus-only lanes and busways in several corridors, including the under-construction York University busway, and the planned\u00a0 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) along Kingston Road between Victoria Park and Eglinton. New busways include Wilson Ave. from the Wilson subway station to Keele Street for the governmental complex redevelopment including a new hospital, and from Kipling Station west to the Mississauga border, even though the Dundas corridor\u00a0 in Mississauga is promoted for LRT. There’s even plans for moving bus stops to the “far-side” position to take advantage of existing and new traffic light priority systems in the network.<\/p>\n

However, there are some changes that could come immediately: some important base routes, like 41 Keele, have late evening service of 24 minutes (most major north-south routes run every 15 minutes during this time period). We will not see the results in any of these improvements until 2010, and many routes will not improve for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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