Additional buses and schedule changes for September
Melissa Sundardas
News Editor
Students who use York Region Transit to travel to and from campus may have shorter wait times in the coming school year.
As part of YRT’s service changes to over 70 bus routes, three York University routes will receive more frequent service.
“We know that a lot of students and faculty take our service to the university, so what we do is we increase service capacity,” says Richard Leary, York Region Transit general manager.
The routes to change include the Viva Purple and Orange, and the YRT 22A route.
To accommodate students who want to get to York more quickly, the YRT has added a few extra buses to the Viva Purple route which will travel to and from Richmond Hill to York, as opposed to the regular route which extends to Markham Stouffville Hospital.
Viva Purple will now run every seven minutes, instead of every 15 minutes.
For the Viva Orange, the YRT has worked with Züm in creating a schedule that ensures an easier transfer from one transit system to the other.
The Züm bus and the Viva Orange will arrive alternately so that when commuters get off of one bus, they can board the other one right away.
“We want to create reliable [wait time] so that people can really depend on public transportation to get to and from the university,” says Leary.
The 22A route, which travels from Newmarket to York, is getting an increase in service as well. There will now be 17 trips per day to and from York, up from 5.
All new route adjustments will begin on September 2.
