Service changes for July 26, 1998

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Service changes for September 1998

2 ANGLESEY

Service south of Rathburn Road eliminated

• The trial service operated south of Rathburn Road, between Mill Road Loop and Sherway Gardens, will be removed. The last day of service will be July 24, 1998. One bus fewer will be used in each peak period, and there will be no change to headways or departure times, compared to the present service, on the remaining part of the route.

Service summary - Monday to Friday peak period

25 DON MILLS

• Danforth Division has found that additional running time is required on Saturdays to improve the reliability of service, and a recent passenger count supports that conclusion. Four minutes will be added to the round-trip running time. The headway will be widened from 6 min 15 s to 6 min 30 s, and the average number of customers on each bus during the busiest hour will remain within the vehicle loading standard.

Service summary - Saturday daytime

139 HUNTINGWOOD, 85 SHEPPARD EAST, and 10 VAN HORNE (RTEP Sheppard Subway construction)

• The schedules on these routes will be changed, to allow for the greater time that is now being taken by buses west of Don Mills Road, as a result of the construction of the Sheppard subway line.

• Five minutes of scheduled running time will be added on the 139 HUNTINGWOOD route in the afternoon peak period, and the headway will be increased from 15 min to 16 min. Additional running time during the afternoon peak period was introduced in the June 1998 board period on the 85 SHEPPARD EAST route, and the services designs will be revised for the July 1998 board period as shown below.

• Five minutes of scheduled running time will be added on the 10 VAN HORNE route in the afternoon peak period, and one bus will be added. The cost to provide the additional bus will be charged to the subway construction project.

Service summary - 139 HUNTINGWOOD - Afternoon peak period

• Note: RTEP time is the extra time added to the schedules because of the delays created by the construction of the Sheppard Subway.

Service summary - 85 SHEPPARD EAST 

Service summary - 10 VAN HORNE 

504 KING

• Because of the replacement of track at five car stops on Roncesvalles Avenue, south of Howard Park Avenue, all streetcars on the 504 KlNG route will operate between Broadview Station and Roncesvalles carhouse, on Saturdays and Sundays. A bus service will operate between Dundas West Station and Shaw Street, looping on-street via south on Shaw, east on Duoro, north on Crawford, east on Canniff, south on Strachan, west on Duoro, and north on Shaw to west on King.

• All streetcars going in and out of service on the 505 DUNDAS and 506 CARLTON routes from Roncesvalles Carhouse will operate via King and Bathurst streets, instead of via Roncesvalles Avenue.

Service summary

52 LAWRENCE WEST

• Service will be increased during the early evening on Saturdays, to reduce overcrowding. Three buses will be added, and the headway will change from 30 min to 15 min, until 8:45 p.m. from Lawrence Station. When combined with the service provided by the 58 MALTON route, the average number of customers on each bus will be reduced from 46 to 38, below the vehicle loading standard of 40.

Service summary - Saturday early evening, 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. westbound from Lawrence Statlon

70 O'CONNOR

• One new westbound trip will be added on the 70A O'CONNOR (Warden Stn-Coxwell Stn) branch, leaving from Warden Station at approximately 9:24 p.m., seven days a week. 

501/301 QUEEN and 502 DOWNTOWNER

Track reconstruction

• The two projects to rebuild tangent track on Lake Shore Boulevard will end by July 25, and streetcar service west of Humber Loop will resume on July 26.

• A project to replace the tangent track on Queen Street, from Parliament to River streets, will begin on July 26, and will require replacement service to be operated until September 5.

• Streetcars on the 501/301 QUEEN and 502 DOWNTOWNER routes will divert via Broadview Avenue, Dundas Street, and Parliament Street, in both directions, at all times of the week. A replacement bus service will run between Broadview Avenue and downtown, between 4:30 a.m. and 2:30 am., seven days a week. Buses will operate westbound on Queen, and will loop via south on Simcoe, west on Richmond, north on Duncan, and east on Queen. In the eastbound direction, buses will divert via north on Parliament, east on Shuter, south on River, and east on Queen, looping on-street via south on Broadview, east on Eastern, north on Logan, and west on Queen.

• There will be no overnight service on Queen Street between Broadview and Parliament between 2:30 and 4:30 a.m. Customers can use the stops at Parliament and at Broadview, which will be served by the diverted 301 QUEEN overnight streetcar route.

• Buses will come from Danforth Division. Operators will be a mixture of Russell and Danforth operators. Service designs are shown below. Included in the service designs are summer weekend service and round-trip time increases.

Service summary

501 QUEEN, 502 DOWNTOWNER, 503 KINGSTON RD, 506/306 CARLTON

• The special trackwork project at Queen and Connaught originally scheduled for the Victoria Day long weekend during the May board period, has been deferred to the July 31 to August 4 civic holiday long weekend

• Streetcars on the 501 QUEEN. 502 DOWNTOWNER, and 503 KINGSTON RD routes will operate as far east as Russell carhouse only. Two bus services will be operated, between Russell carhouse and Neville Park loop, and between Russell carhouse and Bingham loop. Cars on the 506/306 CARLTON route running in and out of service to and from Russell Carhouse will be diverted via Broadview and Gerrard.

• The temporary services will be operated by the streetcar divisions and by Danforth Division at the divisional level.

82 ROSEDALE

• The first three round trips on Saturday mornings on the 82 ROSEDALE route, leaving Rosedale Station at 6:15, 6:40, and 6:50 a.m., will be removed because of very low ridership. On the day of the most recent passenger count, two customers used the trips that will be removed. The first bus on Saturdays will now enter service westbound on South Drive at Glen Road at 6:55 a.m., and the first eastbound trip will leave from Rosedale Station at 7:00 a.m.

24 VICTORIA PARK

• Birchmount Division and the Schedules section of Service Planning have determined that additional running time is required on this route between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. on Saturdays, before the round trip running time increases to 90 minutes. One additional bus is required to ensure that the average number of customers on each bus does not exceed the vehicle loading standard.

Service summary - Saturday, 8:12 to 9:42 a.m, times southbound from Steeles Avenue

89 WESTON

• Service will be revised on Saturdays and Sundays, to eliminate excessive running time and to reduce service at times of very low ridership. With the present schedule, buses consistently arrive at Keele Station well ahead of schedule, and Arrow Road Division staff report that operators are not able to drive slow enough to keep to schedule.

• On Saturdays, before 9:00 a.m. (time at KeeIe Station), the round-trip running time will be reduced from 72 min to 60 min. The two northbound trips at 4:50 and 5:20 a.m. will be eliminated, and service will be increased from 15 min to 30 min. Only four customers used these trips at Keele Station on the day of the most recent count. Between approximately 6:00 and 8:40 a.m., two fewer buses will be used, the headway will change from 12 min to 15 min, and the average number of customers per bus will remain within the loading standards.

• From 8:40 a.m. to 12:20 noon on Saturdays, and during the daytime on Sundays, the running time will be reduced from 72 min to 66 min, and 6 min of recovery time will be scheduled. From 12:20 noon to 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays, the running time will be reduced from 74 min to 68 min, and 6 min of recovery time will be scheduled. There will be no change to the headway at these times.

• In the evening on Saturdays and Sundays, the running time will be reduced to 56 minutes, and 4 min of recovery time will be scheduled. There will be no change to the headway.

Service summary

320 YONGE BLUE NIGHT

• Two additional early-morning southbound trips will be added, Monday to Friday, on the 320 YONGE Blue Night route, leaving York Mills Road at 4:39 and 4:53 a.m. These additional trips are necessary to reduce consistent overcrowding at that time of the morning, before the subway opens. Currently, the level of service increases from a bus every 15 minutes to a bus every 7 min 30 s at 4:48 a.m., southbound from York Mills Road. This change will result in the 7 min 30 s level of service beginning at 4:18 a.m. from York Mills Road on weekday mornings.

• Five additional northbound trips will be added, on the Saturday late-night schedule (early Sunday morning), between 1:45 and 3:00 a.m., to reduce overcrowding. This change will reduce the headway before 3:00 a.m. from 7 min 30 s to 5 min. The average number of customers on each bus during the busiest hour will be reduced from 57 to 38, within the vehicle loading standard of 50. The present timed transfers will be maintained, but the supplementary trips will not make timed connections.

HOLlDAY SERVlCE - Labour Day weekend, 1998

• A holiday level of service will be scheduled on Labour Day, Monday, September 7. Summer route extensions and service level increases will be included in the schedules for this day.