Ambitious!
TheStar.com - News - A $100M plan to ease gridlock in 2 years or less
The Greater Toronto Transportation Authority has a get-it-done-in-2-years wishlist, which includes “Creating an online trip planner service to make it easier to use transit across city borders…”
I second that and add that they force the TTC to revamp their website. I don’t know about other folks, but unless I know the exact bus number and direction I want — and who does for a route you’re unfamiliar with? — it’s impossible, or at best takes forever, to figure out when and where one should catch a bus when planning a trip. The site itself is primitive and chaotic and screams, “Go Away!” They don’t even tell you when or why the subway is down! (Then again, if they did, I’d probably never find the notice on that cluttered home page anyway.)
So more power to the GTTA if that $1.5 million is spent on website tools that includes the TTC! And if it doesn’t, oh well, at least the 905ers won’t have to suffer our aggravation.
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Maybe it was a year ago or last spring when I visited Mississauga Transit’s website for route information.
All I wanted was a simple view of when and roughly how often - 15/20/40 min. (or whether)- a known route operated during an upcoming early Sunday morning. Instead what I was offered was an online request form for the NEXT scheduled bus exact arrival minuteonly - according not to the route number, I wish, but according to the code digit of a specific bus stop?!?
Obviously Mississauga transit only expects regular commuters to be using their system!