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Originally Posted by CMD UW
Transit service is extended as per plans endorsed by ETS. In some circumstances, developers pay for the first few years of transit as they find it helps establish a ridership base much faster versus waiting for ETS to extend service when a certain population threshold is achieved.
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The Ellerslie/Summerside area doesn't even really have late service for the most part - no surprise here. The only ETS buses which come by there are the minibuses (Routes 78 & 79). I know - my sister just moved into the Summerside area, and while I respect her choice, there are times when I wish she'd had moved to the other side of Gateway. At least I'm glad she didn't move to Cameron Heights - there isn't any ETS service there!
I wonder what kind of a population threshold a new subdivision must have before its improved bus service? I know Edmonton has some newer suburban areas where residents there have had to wait
years to get anything apart from peak hour ETS service. Sure, Ellerslie/Summerside will probably never get LRT service in my lifetime, but I'd like to at least see a similar degree of late night service to what you get in Millwoods and McEwan/Rutherford (on the other side of Gateway).
I've been noticing a lot of construction in the west side of Ellerslie while visiting my sister and her fiance there, and part of that might be part of the business campus.
BTW, Serenity's kind of meh IMO - the podium leaves a lot to be desired.
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