The city has started to shift some of the southbound buses that normally inhabit bank street from Lyon to O’Connor, and will keep doing so until they re-open bank near Somorset. Obviously, this makes eminent sense, as I pointed out almost a month ago.
Given the fuss that businesses have raised, I’m surprises that this didn’t happen months ago. It really doesn’t make sense to move bus routes more than a block away from Bank, especially given that the one-way streets work conveniently in the city’s favour. It’s unfortunate that it’s taken this long to make the change, but a change for the better is still a change for the better, even if it is terribly belated.
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