Service changes for September 6, 1998

Service changes for July 1998

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Service changes for February 1999

2 ANGLESEY

Service improvement

• A new eastbound trip will be added in the afternoon peak period from Silverthorn Collegiate Institute, at Mill Road and Markland Drive (north intersection). The bus which now leaves eastbound from Rathburn and Mill Road at 3:23 p.m. will start in service northbound at Silverthorn C.I. at approximately 3:17 p.m., and operate to Royal York Station. This trip will provide service from this busy school in the afternoon, at little additional cost. The trip will be the only service scheduled to operate on Mill Road, between Markland Drive and Rathburn Road.

5 AVENUE RD

Service reduction

• A trip which leaves from Oriole Parkway and Lonsdale (Upper Canada College) at 3:45 p.m. and runs to St. Clair Station will be removed. This trip was added in February 1996 to continue one busy trip of the 33 Forest Hill route, which was removed at that time as a result of the reductions in funding for transit by the municipal and provincial governments. The trip has been used by very few customers. 

6 BAY

Seasonal service ends

• Early-evening service on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays will end after Labour Day. On Sunday, September 6, early-evening service will be operated at the divisional level.

50 BURNHAMTHORPE

Service reduction

• The Monday to Friday late evening 50A BURNHAMTHORPE (Islington Stn-Mill Rd and Rathburn) service will be removed. The last trip on the route from Monday to Friday will now depart eastbound from Burnhamthorpe and Mill Road at 10:00 p.m., and westbound from lslington Station at 10:15 p.m. This last westbound trip will operate on the 50 BURNHAMTHORPE (Islington Stn-Mill Rd) branch, and will deadhead back to Queensway Division from the Burnhamthorpe/Mill Rd loop.

506/306 CARLTON

Track reconstruction

• Because of the replacement of tangent and curved track on Coxwell Avenue, between Lower and Upper Gerrard streets, and the special track work at the intersection at Coxwell and Lower Gerrard, service on the 506/306 CARLTON streetcar route will be changed for the September board period. This track project will use, for the first time, the TTC's new temporary "top-on-track" crossovers.

• From Monday to Friday, all service on the 506/306 CARLTON route will be provided with streetcars, which will operate on a single track past the construction site, using the temporary crossovers. Up to eight minutes of additional round-trip running time will be added, to allow for the temporary operation and any small delays which may result. Either one or two streetcars will be added, at different times. Headways will be unchanged from the normal non-summer service levels.

• On all weekends during the board period, the temporary crossovers will either be set up, moved, or taken down, or the curved track will be rebuilt, or the special work at Gerrard and Coxwell will be under construction. Service on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, therefore, will be changed, so that 506/306 CARLTON Streetcars operate between High Park and the Queen/Coxwell Loop, and a replacement bus service is operated between Main Street Station and Broadview Avenue, looping via Gerrard, Broadview, Dundas, River, and Gerrard. During the one weekend when the special track work at Gerrard and Coxwell is rebuilt, streetcars will be diverted at the divisional level.

• Buses will come from Danforth Division. Operators will be a mixture of Russell and Danforth operators.

Route service summary

29 DUFFERlN

Seasonal service ends 

• Service into Exhibition Place ends when the CNE opens on August 21. After that date, all buses will turn at Exhibition West Loop.

505 DUNDAS

Seasonal service ends

• Two eastbound trips in the morning peak period and running time that was added in the midday and afternoon peak period for the summer will be removed.

Track reconstruction

• Because of the weekend replacement of track at three car stops on Dundas Street, east of Church Street, a weekend tangent track project on Dundas Street at Sherbourne Street, and a weekend special track work project at the intersection of Dundas Street and Parliament Street, 505 DUNDAS streetcars on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays will operate between Dundas West Station and downtown, looping on-street via Church, Queen, and Victoria. A bus replacement service will operate between Broadview Station and Bathurst Street, looping at Wolseley Loop.

• Buses will come from Danforth Division. Operators will be a mixture of Russell and Danforth operators.

• Replacement services from Monday to Friday will be operated at the divisional level as required.

Route service summary

121 FRONT-ESPLANADE

Seasonal service ends

• Service to Ontario Place and Exhibition Place will end after Labour Day. All buses will turn at Bathurst Quay. Sunday and holiday service will end, and the hours of operation from Monday to Saturday will return to the hours operated in the March 1998 board period. On Sunday, September 6, service to Ontario Place and Exhibition Place will be operated at the divisional level. The split operation of the route as two branches during the afternoon peak period will be removed.

35 JANE

Stopping pattern changes

• The stopping pattern of the 35E JANE EXPRESS (Jane Stn-York University) service will be changed, to speed up service for customers on the route, and to avoid the need for an increase in running time, which would increase the current 15 min headway. The stops at Dundas and Trethewey/Denison will be eliminated. Customers using the 35E branch at these stops will need to use the local service. With this change, the 35E branch will serve Jane Station,  Woolner/Foxwell,  Eglinton,  Weston  Road,  Lawrence,  Maple  Leaf/Church, Falstaff/Gordon MacKay, Wilson, and all stops at and north of Sheppard.

Service improvement

• At the request of Vaughan Transit, the routing of the 35D (Jane Stn-Langstaff) branch will be changed at all times from Monday to Saturday, and service will be increased during the peak periods. The new routing for the 35D branch will be from Jane Station, north on Jane, west on Applewood, north on Edgeley, east on Courtland, south on Jane, east on Langstaff, south on Creditstone, west on Pippin, south on Jane to Jane Station. Before noon, buses will lay over on Pippin just east of Jane. After noon, buses will layover on Applewood, just west of Jane. This routing will improve service to the industrial areas east and west of Jane Street.

Route service summary

107 KEELE NORTH

Service to York University resumes

• Service to York University during the peak periods and midday from Monday to Friday will resume for the September board period. Southbound buses in the morning, and northbound buses in the afternoon, will serve York University. The cost of this service is paid by Vaughan Transit.

44 KlPLlNG SOUTH

Route extension

• The route will be extended further south, during all periods of service, to a new off-street bus loop that is being constructed by the city near the Humber College campus, south of Lake Shore Boulevard. Two minutes will be added to the running time at all times. During the peak periods, the headway will change from 7 min 30 s to 8 min, and the average number of customers per bus will increase from 46 to 49 during both peak periods. At off-peak times, there will be no change to the headway, and the recovery time will be reduced by two minutes.

Service summary - Monday-Friday peak periods 

Service improvement

• An additional northbound trip will be added in the early afternoon, Monday to Friday, to reduce overcrowding at times of school dismissal. The trip will start in service northbound on Kipling at Birmingham at approximately 3:21 p.m. The bus will deadhead to the stop at Birmingham by turning around in the old off-street loop on Kipling, but will not pick up any customers in this loop.

30 LAMBTON

Seasonal service ends

• The last day of scheduled operation into High Park will be on Labour Day, September 7. The service into High Park on Sunday, September 6, will be operated at the divisional level.

58 MALTON

Routing revision

• The routing at Pearson Airport will be changed, because of a long-term construction project at the airport which is beginning in 1998. Buses will serve Terminal 2 first, and then will serve a stop near the site of the former administration building. The third stop in the airport, near the entrance to Terminal 1, will no longer be served. There will no longer be a change in routing at 9:30 a.m. Before 12:00 noon, seven days a week, any necessary layovers will be taken at the administration building stop. After noon, seven days a week, any layovers will be taken at Terminal 2.

501/301 QUEEN and 502 DOWNTOWNER

Track reconstruction

• The project to rebuild tangent track on Queen Street, from Parliament to River streets, will end, and full streetcar service will return to the 501/301 QUEEN and 502 DOWNTOWNER routes.

86 SCARBOROUGH and 85 SHEPPARD EAST

Seasonal service change

• In order to match the earlier fall closing times of the Toronto Zoo, the times of the last trips will be made earlier on the two routes which serve the zoo, 86 SCARBOROUGH and 85 SHEPPARD EAST. The approximate last trip times will be as shown below. Service on Sunday, September 6, will run on the summer Sunday schedule, adjusted at the divisional level. Service on Labour Day will operate on the summer holiday schedule. Further changes will be made in the October board period to match the changes to the closing times of the zoo.

Last trips

85 SHEPPARD EAST

Accessible service revision

• Accessible service will be reduced on this route, as decided by the Wheel-Trans Department. During the midday from Monday to Friday, lift-equipped buses will run on the 85C (Sheppard Stn-Victoria Park) and 85G (Sheppard Stn-Scarborough Centre Stn) branches, providing accessible service to the section of Sheppard Avenue between Sheppard Station and Brimley Road. On Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, lift-equipped buses will continue to run on the 85 (Sheppard Stn-Meadowvale), 85B (Sheppard Stn-Toronto Zoo), and 85J (Sheppard Stn-Morningside) branches.

• The wheelchair symbols will be removed from the bus stops on Sheppard Avenue east of Brimley Road and from the bus stops on East Avenue and Meadowvale Road. The wheelchair symbols will remain on the bus stops on Sheppard Avenue west from Brimley Road, on the bus stops on the 85C branch on-street loop via Consumers Road, and on the bus stop for the 85B service at the Toronto Zoo. The section of the 85 SHEPPARD EAST route east of Brimley Road will not be promoted as an accessible route, as it will have accessible service only on weekends.

84 SHEPPARD WEST

Accessible service revision

• Accessible service will no longer be provided on the 84 SHEPPARD WEST route, as decided by the Wheel-Trans Department. The wheelchair symbols will be removed from all of the bus stops that are not also served by other accessible routes.

165 WESTON RD NORTH

Seasonal service ends

• The last day of scheduled operation to Canada's Wonderland will be on Labour Day, September 7. The service to Canada's Wonderland on Sunday, September 6, will be operated at the divisional level. After Labour Day, the service will return to its non-summer northern terminus at Rutherford Road and Weston Road.

96 WlLSON

Routing revision

• The routing of the 96E WlLSON EXPRESS (Wilson Stn-Humber College) route will be changed, to reduce travel