Thread by @perspicuity1

I spent a couple of hours looking at the proposed transit routes and I'm still forming opinions but I thought I'd share some views of the map. Full map peterborough.ca/en/city-servic… @ptbo_transit @thebuscanada #ptbo

https://twitter.com/CityPtbo/status/1414683538822242312

First off here's a simple view which shows the overall coverage. All one colour. This is the base map for the following images.

One of the things the proposed plan does it move away from a strong downtown up. So you get all these routes that don't go there.

There still remains some service from the Simcoe St station out to the corners of the city. For instance, these three non overlapping spokes.

Fleming and Trent emerge as new hubs. The route counts serving them are: Fleming 5, Trent West Bank 4, Trent East Bank 2

Which leaves these routes that don't go to the post secondary hubs

There are two routes that serve PRHC

There's only one that crosses the Hunter St bridge and then its compliment running between the retails centers.

Finally, I was particularly struck by some of the routes that wander across the great amounts of the city. This map show just 4 of the 10 routes... I wonder if they are trying to do too much. But then I'm bike rider before I'm a bus rider and am used to going direct.

Gonna send this to my non-twitter peeps via an
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up -> hub*

Back to thinking about streetcars coming back to Ptbo.