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Routes cut to Legends, but not Walmart


Dear Editor:

It is understandable that with a $2.5 million deficit facing Durham Regional Transit, some
non-profitable route cutting would take place.

However, sometimes service must take precedence over dollars. Durham Regional Transit discontinued service between the hours of 9:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. to the Legends Centre in Oshawa: a period of five hours.

Attendance at the centre is 1,500 per day, with 700 to 900 arriving between 6:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. The majority of patrons during that time use the library, seniors’ centre, pool and fitness centre. Only one pad of hockey is usually in use during that time.

Programs for the seniors’ centre are time-related, as are many at the library and pool.

For programs finishing before noon, it is at least a three-hour wait to get a returning bus. For programs beginning at 1:00 p.m., one has to arrive three hours early.

The Legends Centre was recently given an award for being one of the top architectural recreation centres in North America. To not have bus service for a five-hour core period is unacceptable and detracts from the professional image the centre projects.

Bus service continues to Walmart, one-half kilometre south of the Legends. I would question how much was saved by discontinuing the north leg to the Centre four times a day versus service denied to this excellent facility.

Gord Reid
Oshawa
 

 

 

  
     
     

 
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