How Has Line 5 Changed Your Travel Patterns?
Hi all! It's been a while since I have wrote a blog post, but I've had a few ideas recently that I want to put to paper. Since my last post, TTC has opened both Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West. While Line 6 is a 1:1 replacement for the former 36 Finch West bus, with only a small handful of accompanying surface network changes. Line 5 is the real game changer, provided a second east-west line across the City, with stations in five of the six boroughs. Many bus routes were modified to provide connections to the new stations. Over the past few months, as I have gotten used to using Line 5 and remembering the new bus routes, I have noticed that my travel patterns have changed. I wanted to write about them, and how new lines both provide opportunity, but can also be challenging to predict outcomes of. I have listed the three main changes I have noticed, in level of how predictable they would have been prior to Line 5 opening. Change 1 - High Predictability My most common trans...