2016 Transit Service Review (primarily Northwest Route Network)
I had meant to post about this earlier, but a lot of the bus network serving the northwest and also parts of the Centre City was studied and overhauled as part of the fall service changes.
The old 37/43 and 137/143 northwest loop buses are gone, as is the 145 Northland route. A few of the 400 series community connector routes were worked over as well.
The result is this:
from the
Rider's Guide
Operating efficiency was part of the aim here, with some of the new routes being interlined and to iron out some of the kinks with the old network.
Has anyone had any experiences with this new network yet?
I really don't know what to think, or whether this will be more efficient or not. The farther northwest communities frankly don't lend themselves to being effectively served by bus routes due to the curvilinear spaghetti dish layout of the streets, but I'm sure there were some inefficiencies that could be eliminated.
I do like that a big area like this was taken and fully re-worked. I would like to see that for some other large areas of the city, as well as the city as a whole with some of the major trunkline routes (3, 4, 5, 20, 72/73, etc.). I found that in the past too small an area was looked at, or just single routes were changed without looking at how the network worked together as a whole.