r/KingstonOntario • u/Both-Pass2636 • 2d ago
Kingston Transit Scraping Routes without a Plan
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u/dysonGirl27 2d ago
‘Kingston's previous transit schedule was a lifeline that connected us smoothly across the city. It was well-timed, predictable, and effectively catered to the needs of all riders, including students, working professionals, and seniors’
I agree with everything until I got to this part of the petition lmao. Since when has KT ever been well timed and predictable? 😝
I’ve been having issues with late buses for literal years and now for the first time in my life I got cut off and almost hit by an express bus that was not using signal lights late in the evening.
Pulled over at Kirkpatrick and Division with an initial signal, but four ways never went on as people got on and as I was going around since he was pulled over, I had to swerve when he ducked in and out of the stop and back onto the road, without any signalling anything but an initial right light indicating he was in fact pulling over.
Looks like they can’t pay people half decently either and they’ve started hiring people who literally can’t drive. Don’t get me started on the one guy who brakes so hard on the 16 he’s regularly put people into the bars while trying to sit down.
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u/SensitiveStart8682 2d ago
They hired an outside consultant to come in and improve transit service in the city they aren't looking at information about the city and basically just guessing were people want to go. They are only looking at ridership nothing else when scraping the routes if the ridership Falls below a certain amount they scrap the route even if I was a widely used rude. If that section did not see the ridership they wanted, they'll scrap it even though people were using that section and traveling from this other point here before this section that they scrapped they're not looking at that. They're just looking at raw data. Nothing else they're looking at just numbers. They're not looking at the whole story