Service Improvements for 2005

Service Improvements for 2005 April 2005 Service Improvements for 2005 - 3 - Table of contents Table of contents Summary ............................................................................................................................ 5 Recommendations .............................................................................................................. 6 1. Planning transit service................................................................................................... 7 2. Recommended new and revised services...................................................................... 11 36 FINCH WEST – Revised routing at Milvan Drive......................................................................................................................... 11 143 DOWNTOWN/BEACH EXPRESS – Revised routing downtown .................................................................................................... 11 33 FOREST HILL – Revised routing at Old Forest Hill Road ............................................................................................................ 12 191 HIGHWAY 27 ROCKET – Revised routing via Humber College Boulevard................................................................................ 12 41 KEELE – Revised routing at York University.............................................................................................................................. 13 116 MORNINGSIDE – Extension to Morningside Heights ................................................................................................................. 13 Additional periods of service on present routes ............................................................................................................................... 14 134 PROGRESS – Evening and Sunday service to Finch Avenue...................................................................................................... 14 38 HIGHLAND CREEK – Sunday and holiday service........................................................................................................................ 14 3. Previous recommendations not yet introduced ............................................................. 16 143 DOWNTOWN/BEACH EXPRESS – Extension on Kingston Road.................................................................................................. 16 58 MALTON – Saturday service to Westwood Mall.......................................................................................................................... 16 4. Proposals examined and not recommended ................................................................. 17 Bessarion Station – New bus service ............................................................................................................................................... 17 36 FINCH WEST – Extension to Woodbine Racetrack ...................................................................................................................... 17 12 KINGSTON RD – Direct service from Port Union Road ............................................................................................................... 17 56 LEASIDE and 51 LESLIE – Combined routes................................................................................................................................ 18 Parkview Hills – Revised service..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Pharmacy Avenue – Through service from Steeles to Victoria Park Station................................................................................... 18 66 PRINCE EDWARD – Revised service at Lake Shore Boulevard .................................................................................................... 19 80 QUEENSWAY – Revised service................................................................................................................................................... 19 Scarborough East Express Service................................................................................................................................................... 20 85 SHEPPARD EAST – Through service at Don Mills Station ........................................................................................................... 20 53 STEELES EAST – Extension east of Markham Road..................................................................................................................... 20 60 STEELES WEST – Service on Yonge Street in peak periods......................................................................................................... 21 88 SOUTH LEASIDE and 74 MT PLEASANT – Remove service from Pleasant Boulevard.................................................................. 21 77 SWANSEA – Service via Windermere Avenue and Bloor Street.................................................................................................. 21 10 VAN HORNE and 169 HUNTINGWOOD – Combined routes .......................................................................................................... 22 10 VAN HORNE – Service on Edmonton Drive................................................................................................................................. 22 68 WARDEN – Service on Bridletowne Circle.................................................................................................................................. 23 96 WILSON – Extension to Humberwood Loop ............................................................................................................................... 23 Additional periods of service on present routes ............................................................................................................................... 24 509 HARBOURFRONT– Non-summer late evening service................................................................................................................ 24 169 HUNTINGWOOD – Off-peak service ........................................................................................................................................... 24 51 LESLIE – Sunday service ............................................................................................................................................................. 24 132 MILNER – Monday-Friday midday service................................................................................................................................ 24 78 ST ANDREWS – Saturday service ................................................................................................................................................. 24 5. Post-implementation reviews of new services ............................................................... 25 192 AIRPORT ROCKET – Extension to Pearson Airport Terminal 1.................................................................................................. 25 32 EGLINTON WEST – Monday-Friday early evening service to Skymark ....................................................................................... 25 32 EGLINTON WEST – Service to Airport Corporate Centre............................................................................................................. 25 59 MAPLE LEAF – Revised service in Weston.................................................................................................................................. 26 46 MARTIN GROVE – Revised routing at Kipling Station................................................................................................................. 26 TORONTO TRANSIT COMMISSION Service Improvements for 2005 - 4 - Table of contents Appendices ....................................................................................................................... 27 Appendix A – Service changes, 2004-2005 ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Appendix B – Services with poor financial performance, 2004-2005 ............................................................................................. 29 Appendix C – Ridership and cost statistics for bus and streetcar routes, 2004-2005....................................................................... 34 Glossary............................................................................................................................ 38 Index of service changes by city ward............................................................................... 39 Index of streets, routes, and locations............................................................................... 41 TORONTO TRANSIT COMMISSION Service Improvements for 2005 - 5 - Summary Summary This report on Service Improvements for 2005 presents a Six of the recommendations would improve service comprehensive evaluation of proposals for new and improved without additional operating costs. By making these changes, transit service which have been received from customers, City more customers will be attracted to the TTC, the TTC’s councillors, and TTC staff. A total of 31 proposals have been productivity will be increased, and the TTC’s fare revenue reviewed. The report recommends eight service changes, to be will be increased, without an increase in the cost of operations. made in 2005, following a period of consultation. Two recommendations would require additional funding.

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