U of G Employees to Get Transit Discount. The city of Guelph is providing a 15% discount on monthly passes to employees of the University of Guelph and the Co-operators as a pilot of a new programme that hopes to persuade people to commute via mass transit to work. Motivations include environmental friendliness, reduced congestion, and generally improved bussing services. I like the environment and like doing things that might have a positive impact on it. I also enjoy the idea of mass transit, though I hope service improves.
Guelph has recently become more digital in that respect. They removed the posted signs advertising bus arrival times (which is awful) in place of a website and phone number you can call. Of course, now unless you own a cellular phone or some such device, you cannot readily deduce when a bus might possibly come from a stop. That's huge disabling to people without the Internet, without cellular phones, to those foreign to a particular bus stop. It's been tortuous in some aspects. Also, routes during prime hours had their intervals increase from 30 to 40 minutes, which meant extra-long wait times if you couldn't better plan out meeting the bus. Guelph Transit hopes to get enough in their next budget to implement 20 minute intervals during peak hours and to be able to post comprehensive schedules (perhaps ala Victoria, BC) to mitigate the disadvantages of the old, predictable 30 minutes + sign system.
Now, if only the buses would actually appear on NextBus ...
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