Starting on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, there will be changes to MiWay services that benefit customers and reflect improvements in the quality of shift work to support the well-being of our Transit Operators. These MiWay service changes involve more frequent service on Route 35 Eglinton to address customer overcrowding resulting from increased customer demand. Additionally, new trips will be added to several high-demand routes to support continued customer growth. Route 34 will be cancelled due to low customer demand; however, the service area coverage will be maintained with new routing for routes 9, 49A and 68.
- More frequent weekday service on Route 35 Eglinton
Route 35 Eglinton will increase its weekday service frequency to alleviate customer overcrowding.
During weekdays, the route will run every 9 minutes between 6 am to 10 am and from 2:30 pm to 8 pm, an improvement from the previous frequency of every 10 minutes during those times. Additionally, between 10 am and 2:30 pm, the service will run every 22 minutes, an improvement from the previous frequency of 25 minutes.
- Route 34 cancellation due to low customer demand
Route 34 Credit Valley will be cancelled due to low ridership. This will enable improved service reliability on other routes across the network by reallocating the resources. Transit services on Route 9 Rathburn-Thomas, Route 49A McDowell and Route 68 Terry Fox will be adjusted to maintain transit service to neighbourhoods previously served by Route 34.
- Revised routing on Routes 9 Rathburn-Thomas, 49A McDowell, and 68 Terry Fox
To maintain Route 34 service area coverage, there will be revised routing on three alternate routes:
- Route 9 Rathburn-Thomas: new routing will service Erin Mills Town Centre, Credit Valley Hospital and Erindale GO Station. It will no longer service Streetsville GO Station or travel on Queen Street.
- Route 49A McDowell: new routing will service the Streetsville GO Station and connect to Milton Line GO Train service.
- Route 68 Terry Fox: new routing will service Kingsbridge Garden Circle. Service will also operate hourly on Sundays from 10am to 8pm. It will no longer travel on Confederation Parkway.
- Weekend service frequency improvements to support growing riders on Route 7 and 26
Routes 7 and 26 will operate more frequently on weekends to accommodate the growing ridership and to offer enhanced service at times and locations aligned with customer demand.
- 7 Airport (Saturday and Sunday): will operate every 25 minutes (previously every 28 minutes) all day on Saturdays and every 27 minutes (previously every 31 minutes) on Sundays.
- 26 Burnhamthorpe (Saturday and Sunday): will operate every 22 minutes (previously every 25 minutes) on Saturdays from 5 am to 9 pm, and every 28 minutes (previously every 32 minutes) on Sundays from 10 am to 9:30 pm.
- Ridership continues to grow on many MiWay routes. To accommodate this growth additional services and trips have been added to the routes below to support customers’ travel needs.
The routes below will have additional transit service based on customer travel needs:
- 5 Dixie (Sunday): new earlier northbound and southbound trips on Sunday.
- 7 Airport (Saturday, Sunday): new earlier northbound and southbound trips on Saturday and Sunday.
- 10 Bristol-Britannia (Saturday): new earlier northbound and southbound trips on Saturday.
- 11 Westwood (Sunday): new earlier northbound and southbound trips on Sunday.
- 35 Eglinton (Saturday): new earlier eastbound and westbound trips on Saturday.
- 39 Britannia (Saturday, Sunday): new earlier eastbound and westbound trips on Saturday, plus earlier and later eastbound and westbound trips on Sunday.
- 42 Derry (Saturday, Sunday): new later eastbound and westbound trips on Saturday, and earlier westbound trips on Sunday.
- 61 Mavis (Saturday, Sunday): new earlier and later northbound and southbound trips on Saturday and Sunday.
- 66 McLaughlin (Sunday): new earlier northbound and southbound trips on Sunday.
- 103 Hurontario Express (Sunday): new earlier northbound and southbound trips on Sunday.
- 109 Meadowvale Express (Saturday, Sunday): new earlier and later northbound and southbound trips on Saturday and earlier northbound and southbound trips on Sunday.
- 300-series service to high schools
The routes below will have additional trips to support our high school student riders.
- 307 Philip Pocock-Bloor East: new weekday 7:12 am westbound trip from Kipling Bus Terminal that arrives at Philip Pocock Secondary School at 7:44 am.
- 313 Streetsville-Meadowvale: new weekday 7:48 am southbound departure from Meadowvale Town Centre Transit Terminal that arrives at Streetsville Secondary School at 8 am.
MiWay’s school routes (300 series) will not operate from March 11 to 15 due to March Break.
- Schedule adjustments
Schedules will be updated on various routes to improve service reliability for our customers (a complete list of routes will be available on miway.ca).
- Holiday service
On Good Friday, March 29, 2024, MiWay will operate on a holiday schedule with further adjustments to the routes outlined below:
- Routes 17 Hurontario will operate every 25 minutes and 23 Lakeshore will operate every 29 minutes,
- Routes 28 Confederation, 46 Tenth Line-Osprey and 48 Erin Mills will not operate due to low demand.
More information about these changes will be available at miway.ca beginning Wednesday, February 7, 2024.